Moustache. Junagadh

Sunrising chat. Dwarka

golden earrings....

Sewing saris. Patan

Patan is famous according to his "patola" sari. Beautiful, but also very expensive. In the small city, women sew in the old wooden houses.

Geometry. Bhavnagar

Girl. Patan

Something unusual. Patan

You have to think about what can be unusual in this picture; it is not very difficult...

At the market. Patan

As everywhere in the world, Patan, a little city attract villagers coming fron the countryside who find here what cannot be bought where they live.
Notice than the child does not wear traditionnal clothes.

Having a good time. Mandvi

Really hot today!

Milk. Dwarka

She is very happy, everyday she is on the ghat trying to sell some milk to the pilgrims for the pujas. Today, a family invite her to cross the river with them in the boat with all her milk to do a puja in the temple, on the other bank.

Walking. Mandvi

Street scene. Dwarka

Mirror. Dwarka

She is really beautiful, arranging her hair in the sunrising light after the holy bath! What you cannot see is that she have two divergent eyes, so easy to correct in our countries...

Life in blue. Dwarka

Shipbuilding. Veraval

The retired milkman. Bhavnagar

Distinguished, is not he? Now retired enjoying the life looking at the others working...

Shopping. Jamnagar

Double primary portrait. Dwarka

Building and boats. Veraval

Fish market. Gohghla

In front of the Diu island, a small fishermen village, and at 18h begins the fish selling, lightened by petrol lamps.

Waiting for the "ferry". Mandvi

The "ferry" is this small canot to cross the river during the high tide. You can see one of these all wooden boat builded here, mainly for Dubai .

Woman. Dwarka

She is a character, you know, I guess you can see it in her eyes...

ghat scenery. Dwarka

Some are praying, other, tired to sweep all the time the neverending offerings, afford themselves to take a pause. time seems to be suspended;

Portrait. Dwarka

Three. varanasi

More safety to hold the arm of somebody else before immersion...

Profile. Dwarka

In the vegetables market area...no money in the bank , instead golden jewels weared by the women, and men too (earrings).

Black. Dwarka

On the Dwarka ghats, some indian photographers make a business taking shots of the pilgrims coming for krishna.
We are not in Sicilia! The traditionnal women clothes of the area is about black and red. The women are listening the photographer , before posing, always in a very conventionnal way.

Meat. Junagadh

In the muslim area, a covered meat market.

Milk. Dwarka

Early morning puja on the Dwarka ghat.

Laundry. Bhuj

Laundry in the Bhuj tank; women have to share the place with pelicans, the neighbourhood is not always peaceful...
Bhuj have been very dammaged by the 2001 earthquake.

Selling flowers. Jamnagar

No puja without flowers, I always ask myself what would happen of all these people who live with this small business if one day the hinduist practice stopped suddenly, the economic consequences would be terrific, I think!

Mischevious. Dwarka

As you can see, coming back from school, each one her personnal way of being in front of a camera...

The new painted entrance. Mandvi

Mandvi is one of the main harbour where all wooden boats are builded.

Hands and feet. Dwarka

The pilgrims groups bring with them in the bus all what they need for cooking; here a man helps a woman to wash her hands after . Not so usual.

Trunks. Palitana

Palitana is a great jain temples complex. on top of a hill. Somewhere in a backyard these women were carrying trunks from down to top by neverending steps, I must say that it was²almost incredible to see...

Pilgrims. Dwarka

Usual contrast between men and women looking; taken on the dwarka ghat, near the seashore. dwarka is a very famous Krishna pilgrimage place.

Girlie. Dwarka

Red and black are definitively the colors for women in this area of Gujarat.

The beach. Dwarka

In Dwarka, an important place for Krishna pilgrimage, pilgrims use to take a holy bath in three places; the last one is the beach. As usual, after this they use to dry the saris in the wind.

The baby. Jamnagar

Api. Bhuj

Ancient egyptianscalled him Api, in India it is a nandi, the bull god, horse for Shiva, here it is a living one. Taken in Bhuj, the 2001 earthquake destroyed city, on the banks of the tank, evening time.
PS: no, it's not a remake of The famous Hitchkok movie, indian version!

Coming back from school.Diu

Good news? Patan

House. Diu

Lusitanian influences are evident here...

Warm eyes. Bhuj

met her close to the lake, evening time.

Yellow. Veraval

Wooden boats in renewing in Veraval harbour. These boats are all wood builded. Some poor people like this woman come here to get some pieces of wood for cooking.

Singing. Dwarka

Women after the holy bath, I asked them for some photos, except one they agreed, I did some shots, we were speaking and, surprise they began singing, with very espressive gestures; great moment! Unfortunely no time to use my recorder...

Supersonic pilgrim. Palitana

Incredible to see the vivacity of this old lady, in the same time something of a "conte de Grimm" character.
The irruption of her in the steps surprised me totally, and I could have missed the shot...
We are on top of a hill where 863 jain temples have been builded!

Portrait. Dwarka

Portrait of a very kind and beautiful woman, coming from a village of Dwarka surroundings. The earrings are full gold, and you can trust me, I tried them, very heavy.

Bathing the feet. Dwarka

Not a cool image for feminists! As very often in india you can see how colored is the women dressing comparated to the men one.
Here is sea water,gives really a diiferent looking comparated to the Varanasi shots, according to the veru polluted Ganga water.

Drying the saris. Dwarka

Women drying their sari in the wind after the holy bath in the salt water, looking like cormorants drying their wings on the rocks after the fishing diving.

Jewelled pilgrims. Dwarka

Some pilgrims from the country side come to Dwarka with their traditionnal clothes and their golden jewels.