I have always been fascinated with people and their interaction with me and my camera. I long ago realised that trying be be an invisible observer is not for me. I’d much rather be someone who delights in obvious and honest contact with other people.
‘The People @ Jodhpur Junction’ is part of a larger body of work I made last year in India. This particular story is really about my fascination and delight in meeting complete strangers from a country I had longed to visit. From the outset I shed all notions of the concerned white, middle-class, western truth sayer and approached my subjects with an honest and open desire to make a contact with them.
These images are a document of me as a tourist, one who delights in visiting places for enjoyment and are not concerned with falsely imposed notions of monetary or social standing in those I met. The wonderful bonus for me was being photographed in return by some of my subjects, I had become the curiosity.