Hi, I am an Indian based in Australia and what I see in this site is no different from the many others who come to India with a fancy camera, hoping to capture the 'real India'. Well as they say here - 'good on you mate!'. However having seen this work, I have decided that I will go out (not probably with a fancy camera but a 2 year old Nikon digital) and capture some images of the 'real australia' as well....the grafitti on the walls, piss-drunk people on fri/sat nights (including those pissing on side of shops), the homeless on stations, aboriginals surrounded by VB cans etc ...then maybe I shd create a blog of my own. A one sided representation of a country and its people, even though done well, is not creativity. I dont deny we (India) have a long way to go, but I would like also see the long way we have come.
I found your blogsite via Anand Vasu's Footloose in the Pink City article. Excellent pictures I must say. Like you, I'm a Guyanese (now living in the USA) and have never been to the land of my foreparents. All I learned of India growing up aside from a few traditions and such, was like you mentioned, from the Bollywood movies. I've always heard of the poverty and such but never seen it captured in such beautiful images.
This particular one just breaks one's heart! Granted, this kinda stuff (poverty) is found almost everywhere, even here in the USA one of the richest countries in the world! I'm not sure why all these poster's are getting their undergraments all tied up in a knot about...they should see these pictures for just what they are - a slice of life on the streets fixed in time!
Keep the pictures coming!
And ALL THE BEST to my boys in the final against the cocky Aussies!!! It's time we show the world some of the vas talent and infinite potential this team has!
You remind of one of the 'blind' men from the story of 'Elephant and 7 blind men'. Each blind man touched a part of the elephant's anatomy and wrongly decided thats what the elephant was like!
Do you really think that this represents an Indian family? Every country has people who are well to do and then people who are not.
I think it is as wrong to focus on the negative aspects or not so very fortuunate people to represent a country, as it would be to take pictures of beggars on streets and shantytowns or slums from the carribeans (and believe me, there are many.... I have visited most of the islands).
There is really no 'art' or beauty in it. Just bad taste.....
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HI IMRAN
YOUR PHOTOS ARE NATURAL. I CAME TO KNOW ABOUT THE SAME THRU NDTV THANKS FOR THE SAME. PLEASE LET ME KNOW ABOUT YOUR SITE ON CARRIABEAN.
PLEASE TELL LARA TO SLEEP ON HIS CHEST DURING NIGHT TIME AND DO SWIMMING ATLEAST ONE HOUR DAILY, THIS WILL REDUCE BACK PAIN.
THANKS
JOHN
Pic's may b natural..but they r not complete.
Hi, I am an Indian based in Australia and what I see in this site is no different from the many others who come to India with a fancy camera, hoping to capture the 'real India'. Well as they say here - 'good on you mate!'. However having seen this work, I have decided that I will go out (not probably with a fancy camera but a 2 year old Nikon digital) and capture some images of the 'real australia' as well....the grafitti on the walls, piss-drunk people on fri/sat nights (including those pissing on side of shops), the homeless on stations, aboriginals surrounded by VB cans etc ...then maybe I shd create a blog of my own. A one sided representation of a country and its people, even though done well, is not creativity. I dont deny we (India) have a long way to go, but I would like also see the long way we have come.
G'day
Imran,
I found your blogsite via Anand Vasu's Footloose in the Pink City article. Excellent pictures I must say. Like you, I'm a Guyanese (now living in the USA) and have never been to the land of my foreparents. All I learned of India growing up aside from a few traditions and such, was like you mentioned, from the Bollywood movies. I've always heard of the poverty and such but never seen it captured in such beautiful images.
This particular one just breaks one's heart! Granted, this kinda stuff (poverty) is found almost everywhere, even here in the USA one of the richest countries in the world! I'm not sure why all these poster's are getting their undergraments all tied up in a knot about...they should see these pictures for just what they are - a slice of life on the streets fixed in time!
Keep the pictures coming!
And ALL THE BEST to my boys in the final against the cocky Aussies!!! It's time we show the world some of the vas talent and infinite potential this team has!
Thanks,
Prem
You remind of one of the 'blind' men from the story of 'Elephant and 7 blind men'. Each blind man touched a part of the elephant's anatomy and wrongly decided thats what the elephant was like!
Do you really think that this represents an Indian family? Every country has people who are well to do and then people who are not.
I think it is as wrong to focus on the negative aspects or not so very fortuunate people to represent a country, as it would be to take pictures of beggars on streets and shantytowns or slums from the carribeans (and believe me, there are many.... I have visited most of the islands).
There is really no 'art' or beauty in it. Just bad taste.....
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