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Girls on a flower farm, Doomara village, Rajasthan, India. This is one of my absolute all-time favorite photos, as it perfectly captures how happy these hardy, hard-working people are.
A man with tonsure or shaved head for religious devotion during pilgrimage to Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
Children participate in immersion of Ganesh idols in the Yamuna River during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, Delhi, India
Lovely elderly ladies Pushkar, Rajasthan, India. The woman at center walked up to me, insisted I take her photo, and then sweetly said "you're taking a picture of me, a little old lady?" and then walked away.
Candid street portrait of a boy in Leh, Ladakh, India, showing typically sunburned cheeks from the extremely intense sun in Leh
Portrait of a man on the street in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India. Candid with natural background (purple painted wall where the man was standing)
Three ladies from the Himalayan village of Umla wait for a bus home after finishing a shift at an Indian Army construction site, Ladakh, India
Nepalese immigrant girl from a family of laborers at a flood re-construction site in the Himalayan village of Phayang, Ladakh, India. The family lives in a tent at 11,810 ft., where this was taken, right next to the construction site. The girl's cheeks are burned from constant exposure to the brutal sun at this high altitude.
A boy wearing an Angry birds t-shirt collects camel dung for fuel in the Thar Desert in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
Girls on a flower farm, Doomara village, Rajasthan, India. This is one of my all-time favorite photos, as it perfectly captures how happy these hardy, hard-working, simple people are.
Hindu families immerse idols of the goddess Durga in the Hooghly River at night during the Durga Puja festival, Babughat, Kolkata, India
A Hindu boy with cerebral palsy begs during the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival, 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 man holds a small fish caught in a filty nearby creek at a rubber shoe recycling operation, Dhapa, Kolkata, India. Dhapa is a large industrial zone that processes most of Kolkata's garbage and recycling.
Boys haul reclaimed plastic down from the top of the Dhapa dumping ground (landfill) to take it to nearby processing facilities, Dhapa, Kolkata, India. It is a cliche to feel sorry for people that work in dumps like this but in this case it's quite misplaced. They aren't unhappy and the work isn't that bad. Dumps like this don't even smell.
A woman recycles medical waste plastic with no health safeguards, Dhapa, Kolkata, India. Dhapa is a large industrial zone that processes most of Kolkata's garbage and recycling.
A woman prays on 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.
The awesome spirit of Rajastjan in one photo, children in the very small and remote (not on any maps or in any official records) Nadi village, Rajasthan, India
A girl colletcts water from a communal spigot while wading through monsoon floods, Salkia, Howrah, India
A boy collects donations for having his photo taken during the Pushkar camel fair, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India. I photographed this same boy doing the same thing over three years.
Two drunk men talk beneath a glamorous sign selling skin whitening products called "White Impress" to middle and upper class women, Beniatola, Kolkata, India. Western makeup companies aggressively promote skin whitening and it is an obsession for many in India.
Sisters living at the Dhapa dumping ground, the main landfill for Kolkata's 13 million people, Dhapa, Kolkata, India. Dhapa is a large industrial zone that processes most of Kolkata's garbage and recycling.
Women Hindu pilgrims with shaved heads pray during Ganga Aarti along the Ganges River, Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi, India
A boy collects donations for having his photo taken during the Pushkar camel fair, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India. I photographed this same boy doing the same thing over three years.
A Hindu boy with cerebral palsy begs during the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival, 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.
Families working in rubber shoe recycling, Dhapa, Kolkata, India. Dhapa is a large industrial zone that processes most of Kolkata's garbage and recycling.
Hindu devotees await sunrise on 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.
A man works at a metal fabrication shop without any health precautions, Beniatola, Kolkata, India. Respiratory disease is a major problem in India.
Beautiful people from the farming village of Kharekhari, Rajasthan, India. These are all good friends of mine.
