INDIA
From Delhi to Marwar, the Land of Death in Rajasthan, 2012
In August 2012, I started a two-month journey with the anthrophologist, Professor Pnina Motzafi-Haller, from Delhi to Jaiselmer. We traveled throughout the Marwar region, also known as the "Land of Death", with the goal of making a documentary film about the Banjara, a nomadic population - also called the Gipsy of India. We followed an old trail across the Aravalli Range, used only by the Banjara in the past, to trade cattle and salt. The Banjara trading system along this trail was eradicated almost a century ago when the English built the railway system. The film is yet to be edited and finalized. In the moments when I was not shooting the video, I used my still cameras for taking some travel notes. And, this is what I got in the end: portraits taken from the corner of my eye when my ideas about India collided with the reality I was plunged into.
