IN INDIA 1991
In 1991 I was one of several Evergreen State College faculty members to receive a Fulbright traveling grant to India. The only barrier to enjoying my travels and taking many photographs was a bad case of malaria – a new strain that couldn't be treated at the time. So I didn't photograph as much as I wanted, and I didn't see what others might have seen. A fellow photographer who'd worked in India, on viewing my proof-prints, said that "India doesn't look like that," because it's so much more chaotic; "that's just someplace in your mind." She made me wonder if I'd visited India, or just Malaria. If the latter, then these images have more in common with fever dreams than with reportage.
On these small web pages, one image might need a clue to interpretation: In the fifth image of a quarry above a polluted pool, the little ant-like figures on the ground and on the rock-face are men engaged in mining.
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In 1991 I was one of several Evergreen State College faculty members to receive a Fulbright traveling grant to India. The only barrier to enjoying my travels and taking many photographs was a bad case of malaria – a new strain that couldn't be treated at the time. So I didn't photograph as much as I wanted, and I didn't see what others might have seen. A fellow photographer who'd worked in India, on viewing my proof-prints, said that "India doesn't look like that," because it's so much more chaotic; "that's just someplace in your mind." She made me wonder if I'd visited India, or just Malaria. If the latter, then these images have more in common with fever dreams than with reportage.
On these small web pages, one image might need a clue to interpretation: In the fifth image of a quarry above a polluted pool, the little ant-like figures on the ground and on the rock-face are men engaged in mining.
(To move previous/next, use keyboard arrow keys; or on pad/phone, click just inside the edge of the frame.)