Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/05

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Subject: [Leica] Tribal Faces
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:41:47 -0600 (CST)

On 5 January 2011 19:01, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: 

> After the long debate on B&W and Colour, here are some colour 
> photographs of tribal nomadic women and children (from a single 
> encampment) who sell handmade trinkets to get by - each bracelet, 
> painstakingly made typically sells for US$2-3. Even most of the 
> spectacularly coloured clothes they wear are hand embroidered by 
> themselves. Though these photographs were shot in the Little Rann of 
> Kutch in Gujarat, the tribe actually belongs to the neighboring state 
> of Rajasthan. 
> 
> Little Girl: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0782-Edit.jpg.html 
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0785-Edit-2-Edit.jpg.html
>  
> 
> Mother and Child: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0793-Edit.jpg.html 
> 
> Women: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0805-Edit.jpg.html 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/_JGJ0808-Edit.jpg.html 
> 
> For Sale: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/People/P1060620-Edit.jpg.html 
> 
> C&C, as always, welcome. 
> 
> Cheers 
> Jayanand
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Color contributes here, no argument.  The face shots are almost too close, 
though.  Makes me feel like I'm invading their space by looking.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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