Anoop Negi Photography
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I have been in the field of digital photography right from its early days with special emphasis on the documentation of the lives and times of the common man in present day India existing alongside the cultural and anthropological beliefs and life styles and the events that occupy the day to day lives of the people. This involved extensive travels all over the Indian subcontinent with actual long
09/06/2024
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In Bangkok - Night Time for Some is on the Chao Phraya
And not the sois and streets of the infamous districts of Bangkok and Pattaya where most tourists congregate.
Thailand is a land of rich history and culture. Buddhism, Poverty, Food, Kings, battles, commercial s*x trade, economy, drugs, coups and stark manipulation of the system and government machinery by the rich and landed to continue the exploitation.
Thai society survives in great oddity. The apparent acceptance of the commercial s*x scene that nets about 20 billion Dollars a year contrasts with brothels being illegal and widespread acceptance by all segments of Thai society without any reproachment or shame.
It is a fascinating country with Bangkok and Pattaya being the epicentre of all trade and commerce, s*xual or otherwise. Throughout the length of this land runs the Chao Phraya river of muddy sustenance helpful for rice farming and transportation.
On this river, barges, ferries, hotel boats and river cruise boats keep on plying up and down carrying goods and passengers from one shopping area to another.
12/04/2024
Time for a Cheroot
Journeys begin from homes to places where one has work. Some people in India travel large distances for the smallest of things like a revenue matter in a mofussil office.
This old gentleman seemed beat and bushed but it was only the idea of lighting up a beedi that seemed to have brought a semblance of life to his weather beaten, dull, taciturn countenance.
I had stopped in this small town of Ajra, which has colored wooden frontage to a large number of houses on the main road. Every time I have passed this place, I have wanted to stop and take photographs. This time too, I had the same noble intentions but I wonder if I would have really stopped. It was the sight of this old gentleman sitting forlorn on the wooden bench in the chai shop that was the decisive factor.
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Taken on March 14, 2012 at 4.46pm IST
20/01/2024
At Anjuna in Goa, Wednesday is the Flea Market Day and some good music at Looda's
In the winter months in , the Flea Market in is open on Wednesday and though you never find any 2nd hand material for sale anymore, the large shopping area is crowded, nonetheless with tourists and the expat residents who all come in to soak up the ambience of the halcyon days of hip Goa hippiedom.
Anjuna is a quaint rock studded beach which in the 70s and the early 80s was remote enough to provide a community of seekers of hedonistic bliss, their years in the sun. Now it is a mish mash of shops, shacks, hotels, tourists and the Arabian Sea.
The best time to be there is early afternoon and you can soak up the feel of what this place once was.
This was shot on the Holi day in Goa and on percussion on the "dholak "is Peters, a young enthusiast from England who was at 's Cafe where music is generally the draw on any given Wednesday. The location, right on the beach is an added bonus.
12/01/2024
Life is a part mix of fears, aspirations and worries. At the end of the day it is just about being tired and sadly satisfied. Do you get to understand the meaning of existence?
At Olavayapu Ferry Point. -- The boats are still the ones with oars. Life is still very much a peaceful haven. Pristine and undiscovered at a stone's throw away from Cochin.
Mr Narayanan was all of 85 years when this was shot in 2007. If alive, he would be 102. Who knows ?
And at age 85 he was ferrying passengers on his boat which he himself rows. How is that for Life !
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