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Families working in rubber shoe recycling, Dhapa, Kolkata, India. Dhapa is a large industrial zone that processes most of Kolkata's garbage and recycling.
Girls at a shelter operated by Child in Need Institute (CINI, cinindia.org) in Kumartoli (Potters Town), Kolkata, India.
A family of ten albinos living near Pushkar, Rajasthan, India. They're panhandling during the Pushkar Camel Fair.
A man brushes his teeth in the not very clean Hooghly River (also known as the Ganges), Sovabazar Ghat, Kolkata, India
Muslim men have their eyes painted for Eid al-Adha, Red Road, Madian, Kolkata, India. I have the only photos taken by a foreigner of this most important day to Muslims at the most auspicious site in Kolkata for both 2012 and 2013.
A boy eats carrots and mutter (peas) handed out for free as part of the government food assistance program, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
Women Hindu pilgrims with shaved heads pray during Ganga Aarti along the Ganges River, Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi, India
Ladies pray in the Ganges River during Chhath Puja, Varanasi, India. Chhath Puja is a devotion to the Sun God Surya in which people gather at sunset and then on the following sunrise and offer prayers.
Girl from a low income family in a remote part of the Pushkar desert, Kishanpura Goyla village, Rajasthan, India
A man brushes his teeth in the not very clean Hooghly River (also known as the Ganges), Sovabazar Ghat, Kolkata, India
Happy brother sit on a sea of peanuts at their father's food cart at the Pushkar camel fair, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
Construction laborers carry bricks on their heads in Salkia, Howrah, India. Much work in India is still done in a slow, roundabout fashion, in part to create and sustain employment.