Here are some of my old favorite shots of portraits ‘in situ’. A term I only learned today was actually official even in photography. We used to talk about in situ protein immunohistochemistry used to look at proteins as they occur in tissues (or as close as possible). The similarity is: as we try to look at our subjects and the way we look at them, changes them; be it proteins in tissues or people in places..
I had earlier forgotten to mention, some of these people had seen me slightly before or just after I took the shot, like the blushing fisher woman who blushed at a remark by someone I was with; the man with the briefcase who had just seen me across the street before looking away.
This man caught my eye walking in his village, with no other tourists or people from the outside in the village at the timeThose are cow patties on the wall people use as fuelAnd then I caught his eye. I wonder at all his glasses must have witnessedIt looked as though the guy was thinking: don’t mock me. I had not meant to…Tea is served hereGot any change, for me?The shop owner at old china town, Kolkata- Stella. She sells Chinese candy and used an abacus
Fishing in the amazonJuan of the jungle: lives to fish and fishes to live
She thought her friend was prettier as I had taken several snaps of her friend before. Or perhaps she already used to think thatYou can always blushThe crazy lady with a camera and usThe mayor of a village in the Pacaya-Samiria reserve area, northern PeruHe seemed resigned to his life and his possessions: a true fakir (a recluse with religious or spiritual calling)His briefcase: he sells what the briefcase holds. That is mainly different types of rat or pest poison.
Implicit Self 