We are fine. We are not in Mumbai. Everyone in the USA heard about this attack before we did. We woke up in the middle of the night to texts and phone calls. We are in Delhi, several hundred kilometers from Mumbai. I will be there in two weeks, toward the end of my trip.
We’ve [...]
In quest of something a little bit different, Monica booked us on a tour of the slums of New Delhi. There’s a fabulous charity here, called Salaam Baalak Trust, that works with the street children in and around the railway station. They provide food, clothing and education for them and try to get them back [...]
My travels with Monica today, finally got us out of the street. We happened by a small temple in an alley not too far from my hotel in Paharganj. We received a blessing, said some prayers and were sent away with a red dot between our eyebrows, and four bananas.
Today was the zoo, but really it was us who felt like the animals in cages. The Delhi zoo is in a sad state of affairs, only the monkeys outside of the cages really seemed to have any pep. There were some depressed tigers, plodding sloth bears and dusty elephants. But the main attraction was [...]
That spire in the background is part of one of the first mosques ever built in India, around 1199. And that is as close as I could get to it. I traveled all the way out there to see this complex, and it was closed. Tres Indian. I could see through the fence, manicured lawns [...]
I know everyone is waiting for me to post something about the crazy things I’m doing in Delhi. But the truth is jet lag kicked my ass and I slept in until 2pm. The most adventurous thing I did today was buy a toothbrush because I’d somehow forgotten mine. This picture was taken right around [...]
I’m off to India to photograph some personal projects and stories. I’ll be all over, but I’m going to be updating this blog as I move around. Above is the latest and greatest in my competitive eater project, Crazy Legs Conti. Of all the subjects I’ve photographed for this project he was the most helpful, [...]
