Category: Asia
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Mind your step
Mind your step Everyone who has moved around airports must be familiar with this phrase “Mind your step”. Seeing it, I immediately hear the proper voice with the right intonation warning me: “Mind your step!” But what is it supposed to mean here? Can it be a warning to those who are on the verge…
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Blue Planet Sky
Blue Planet Sky So this is what the girl in last week’s post saw through her camera, or rather it’s what I saw through my camera. Looking at the sky can be a nice activity, especially when there is some movement of clouds. Looking at the sky through a fixed frame is even more interesting.…
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Two-way masks
Two-way masks And what does the girl with the camera see up there? The answer to that has to wait till next week’s post. Here I’m interested in the girl with the mask, sitting in this spotlessly clean environment. I always thought that these worker’s masks were meant to protect oneself against fine dust and other unhealthy particles…
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The Swimming Pool
The Swimming Pool This pool owes its alienating effect to the fact that it’s actually only a baby pool with hardly 10 cm of water on a transparent floor under which people can walk by. It is a work of art by Leandro Erlich in the Museum of Contemporary Art at Kanazawa. I used the photo…
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A girl of character
A girl of character Cleaning, cooking, fetching water, looking after the children, feeding and milking the cow or buffalo, gathering firewood: all this and much more is women’s work in many traditional societies.This young woman from Kumaon is carrying a tree home, which she may even have chopped down herself with an axe, as in…
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Women at the village pump
Women at the village pump Such a common sight, but always inviting to pause for a while and enjoy. Here it’s a few women of the Gond tribe with their feet in the mud around the village pump, cleaning vessels and jars. The shiny silver of the traditional armlet, anklets and elaborate belt reflects its beauty…
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Roadside entertainment
Roadside entertainment Moving images, stories told with moving images, invariably attract the attention of children, women and men. Most animals on the other hand, like the cow or bull here, can’t care less. Last week’s post spoke of the close relationship between man and cow in India, the last one almost being considered by man…
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Home again!
Home again! After a long day wandering around the village or town, looking for vegetable scraps, paper, cardboard – in short, anything edible – a cow returns home. Is the cow sacred in India? In a sense, yes – at least to a certain extent. She is one of the living, part of the family,…
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An endearing smile
An endearing smile The young lady has taken refuge against the blistering sun in the cramped space between wall and tree. Confronted with my camera, she sees the amusing side of her position and presents me – and you – with an endearing smile. Photo of the week: Ganj, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India 2007
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Clean sweep
Clean sweep In India, especially in and around cities and towns, one often gets the impression of life being lived on one huge garbage dump. A clean sweep, that’s what India needs (also to do away with its excessive political garbage by the way). The tableau on the picture compares favourably with that image. ‘Why…
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