India series 2007

My friend Frank Ward asked how I could go to India and take pictures with no people in them. If you try hard enough it can be done. Actually I have pictures with people in them here. One of the pieces is called "Women's Work". It took some getting used to seeing women in beautiful sarees and gold bracelets digging ditches for sewer pipes in the city streets. I was also horrified by the hundred year old paintings of soldiers and pretty ladies on the street sides of the haveli walls in Rajasthan, only because they were covered in modern graffiti. No one can explain India to a western person. You have to experience it. This is a culture where it is impossible to disassociate. I am so thankful that I was traveling with my teenage daughter. In our own ways, we each learned so much about ourselves, and of course, each other.