Dispatches from India

10.07.2014

Someone carrying a huge white sack on their head along a mountain road in India, past a roadside stall with a red awning

On a recent trip to India, in search of spiritual enlightenment and a top curry house or two, I found myself shitting fluids and battling monkeys. In between crashing scooters in cow lined streets, contracting laryngitis, washing infected wounds in the Ganges and having a few moments with the Dalai Lama, I also managed to find time to take some pictures.

Two blank billboards lit up at night on top of a small tiled building behind a metal railing

A black taxi with a yellow roof sign parked at night, feet poking out of a window, as someone walks down the lit road

Looking down on someone resting on a rope bed outside a shelter with a blue tarpaulin roof

Two black chickens on a turquoise ledge by a yellow wall, beside a painted Hindi sign asking drivers to go slowly

Someone in an orange top stood among black and brown goats on a dry stone wall beside a dusty hillside road

Steep brick steps between yellow walls leading down to a wide green river, with one person stood at the water's edge

Someone smiling on stone riverside steps with a tray of marigolds in leaf bowls, as people bathe in the river behind

Two people in white vests at a roadside stall, one bent over a hessian sack holding a watermelon

A small fire of leaves burning at the side of a busy town street, as someone in a white shirt crosses the road

A group of five people stood outside looking at the camera, one in a black and white gingham shirt and a cap

Someone half hidden in the dark behind an ornate metal window grille set in a whitewashed wall

Someone carrying red gas cylinders on their back up a busy street, with someone in a white shirt in close-up on the right

Someone in a khaki uniform watches a person bent under a huge bundle of leafy branches on a sunny street

A monkey walking along the ridge of a green metal roof under a clear blue sky

Three people in bright pink, blue and orange clothes on a slope beside a half-built concrete building above a wooded valley

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