Sometimes in Chennai, we can feel as if we were in a small village...
jeudi 30 novembre 2006
mardi 28 novembre 2006
mercredi 22 novembre 2006
Selling fishes
The men were joking about me shoting the woman fish seller, I think she have been a little but confused...
dimanche 19 novembre 2006
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
The great sarod player was invited by the Chennai carnatic music festival to perform .
Hindustani music, so different but a wonderful moment.
For who are interested, this festival is performed in trhe second half of december.
No roof anymore.
during the night the river flood caught the house off...the whole family is in the street....
vendredi 17 novembre 2006
A very curious barber. Chennai
The kids wanted absolutely a snap, the barber, hearing something unusual, came out ...and finally it makes a funny shot...
jeudi 16 novembre 2006
Bowls. Chennai
I took this shot from the road which goes up to cross the river. Under it poor people used the road as a roof and builded some "homes".No water, of course, they get it in tanksfulled by trucks; everybody put his bowl, waiting for the water...I went down in the area, first moment not easy, but after a moment good relationship, I have been followed by a mental handycaped man, he wanted to look at every shot.The most difficult have been to convaince him not to come with me out of the area
Living in the street. Chennai
Like many families in India, they live in the street, cooking, sleeping, all what they have to do , they do it on the sidewalk.
Posters to give something personnal...
Actor. Chennai
23 th of december;
in the streets of Chennai, many shrines like this one, built and decorated by women.
In india we see and hear theese actors-singers-dancers everywhere.
This is MGR. he was the former chief minister of tamil nadu, and before that a actor who mesmerized (brainwashed- so much so that the people actually believe the hero roles he played in movies and that he would help them in real life) the masses with his movies.
Contrast. Chennai
Contrast between them, dressing, skin, posture, and other things...in a little market, Triplicane area.
Fingers, teeth and eyes. Chennai
In the night, the river flood invaded the houses again, some of them are gone with the water, no roof anymore for some families.
However, so welcoming!
Water. Chennai
A team is working to renew a street of Chennai.There is a cement mixer, but she is hungry and women have to bring her sand, gravel and for the two women you see here, water, all along the day.
Hard work; however they are so elegant in their gestures that I feeled as if I was watching at a dance performance...
mercredi 15 novembre 2006
Keeper. Chennai
Keeper, but of what, the hall is empty...nice opportunity to make a shot, blue and red color, and a nice stripe of light in the shade...
Chai. Chennai
What I could drink twenty times a day: tea, you can have it everywhere, and the sellers are so clever...
Monalisa. Chennai
She was carrying bricks on her head in a small street, I was passing by, some meters after, amazed by her beauty, I came back...she asked me to make a portrait of her.
She feeled that she had impressed me, I guess...
mardi 14 novembre 2006
Bharatha Natyam famous dancer. Madurai
Important day in Kalakshetra academy, students come from everywhere in India for a stage.
She is famous and waiting for giving an interview.
dimanche 12 novembre 2006
Bharata Natyam
Others are studying Bharata Natyam, the traditionnal south India dance , at the famous Kalakshetra academy.
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