Tag: Culture
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WC-Monitor
WC-Monitor Once, one fine morning in our house in Orchha, I went to the toilet. To my surprise I found it occupied by an unexpected visitor who clearly wasn’t used to our western toilet habits. Not knowing if he (or she) was kindhearted or dangerous I kept my distance and patiently waited for my turn.…
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Shutter pig
Shutter pig It’s only an outline, the sawn out pig itself is gone.We look at an empty space, the negative form of a pig.So true to life that we see its round, fat body in front of us. Photo of the week: Shutter pig, Solalex, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland 2021
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Fellow villagers
Fellow villagers Two Kumaoni women attending the wedding of a girl in the village. Lives lived in the lap of nature and culture in the foothills of the Himalaya. Photo of the week: Wedding guests, Maat village, Almora, Kumaon, Uttarakhand India 2020
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Folding child
Folding child Neatly folded up,mouth above the plate.Nothing spilled. Photo of the week: Mayoli Organic farm, Mayoli, Uttarakhand, India 2021
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Uttarayani Fair
Uttarayani Fair When Surya (Sun) enters the Capricorn zodiac (14 January) it’s time for the festival of Makar Sankranti, in Uttarakhand also known as Uttarayan. That’s the time when the town of Bageshwar, at the confluence of the Saryu and Gomati Rivers, really comes to life. The biggest mela (fair) of the year in the…
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Of light and loss
Of light and loss I enjoy visiting cemeteries. Gravestones, a name and two dates, sometimes a photograph of the deceased. Sometimes there are also other expressions of loving remembrance which, in all their simplicity and – often – kitsch taste, can be moving. Gravestones remind us of the dead who rest beneath them, but they…
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Fun fair
Fun fair Black foot playshide-and-seek?Hide yes – seek no. Merry-go-round?Not merryand no go round. Fun fair?No funand not fair. Photos of the week: Fun fair, Castiglioncello, Tuscany, Italy 2020
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Before the fall and after
Before the fall and after I saw this little picture hanging on the wall of a house in Italy. It depicts the life of man before and after the fall. In the centre, the idyllic existence in the Garden of Eden is about to come to an end with Eve presenting to Adam the forbidden…
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Vers-Pont-du-Gard
Vers-Pont-du-Gard The ‘Pont du Gard’ is probably the best preserved aqueduct of the Roman Empire and for sure a major tourist attraction in the south of France. In the photo you see it on a photo on a wall in the nearby village ‘Vers-Pont-du-Gard’. An appropriate name for a village at a stone’s throw from…
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Les accordéonistes
Les accordéonistes Are they trying to scare us away,this motley lot of advancing orange,casting their long-drawn-out shadows forward,while drawing protracted cries from their accordions? No! It’s the ‘Festival l’Accordéon Plein Pot’! Photo of the week: ‘Festival l’Accordéon Plein Pot’, Saint Quentin la Poterie, France 2017
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