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Response to Bangalore Portrait

from Eamonn Aiken (aikene@bc.edu)
Thanks, everyone... my senior project (I took off the second half of my junior year at Boston College to go overseas) will integrate all of the images into a text. It started as something of a creative documentary journalism piece, but while overseas (my first time travelling alone) far too many crazy things happened (earthquakes, kidnappers, strange parasites, cholera, trapped in the Himalayas by freak ice storm, flying lizards landing in my breakfast... you get the point!) for me to write it up in that way; as it's going now it reads with more of a "story" slant. There unfortunately isn't much of a story behind this image- it was the last frame on a roll I had shot out in Bangalore. The rest of the images were all made in Cubbin Park during a National Holiday, this one is the odd-one out from the next day to finish the roll... I was tired and dehydrated an decided it was time to get back to where I was staying and rest, and when I turned around to start home, I saw this man- his eyes, hair, and hands demanded a picture. There were no words, and hardly even any gestures- I walked over closer to him, held my camera halfway up to see if he was against being photographed, and he continued just to look at me. I quickly metered and focused, and that was it. Click, whirr, end of roll. Some of the other portraits are posted in my usefilm.com portfolio and a couple random images at photo.net if anyone wants to check them out. Thanks again for your kind words-

Eamonn

(posted 8255 days ago)

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