C&T Publications Eye on Fine Art Photography - June 2014 | Page 65

IRRESISTIBLE INDIA
by Amanda Stadther

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India is one of those places you will never forget, especially if you are a photographer but it is hard work!
The first time I went I was so terrified I didn't leave my New Delhi hotel for two days. Many people who go to India stay in bigname Western hotels surrounded by gates and security, but not me...I had to be different, I wanted to see the real India, how people
lived and worked.
The real India was hot, humid, loud, fast, crumbling,
dirty and barely under control. The hotel I chose was
in a busy part of the city with many markets, food
sellers, beggars and young men on motorcycles
seeming to have a death wish as they curled around
citizens on foot at high speed. For two days I sat on
the front steps with my camera trying to be brave
but on the third morning it was hunger that finally
made me leave my perch and wander down the
street.

Woman trader, Chanderi, India. © Amanda Stadther

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