Friday, April 16, 2010

Faces of Mahishadal

Mahishadal...
Is a small suburb in the district of Midnapore in West Bengal. These photographs were taken on my recent visit to this place, not very far away from Calcutta, and yet, vastly removed from the city in terms of the visuals it offers. Quaint, slow and idyllic, it offers the rush of a sudden vacation: much-wanted and much-cherished...
This series focuses on some of its people, seeped in conservatism, and uncomplaining, comfortable in its uncluttered uncomplicated simplicity...some of these images are identifiable by virtue of being so generic of all Bengali households, its rural ones, most certainly...





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