A woman holds up a campaign poster in front of a polling station in Downtown Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 28, 2011. Elections were held for the first time since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. Despite bloody clashes in the week before teh election, participation was unexpectedly high and it remained peaceful.
On her way to vote a woman walks past election posters in the Shobra neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 28, 2011. Egypt holds the first round of parliamentary elections after the revoultion.
A man stands in front of election posters in Shobra, one of the poorest neighborhoods of Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 27, 2011. The election process in Egypt starts following Monday and will stretch over several weeks. Because of protests and clashes in the week before it was unclear if elections will be held.
Men pray in front of the Cabinet building in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 26, 2011. In the early morning of this day a protester, Ahmed Serour, got run over by a police car and died. The police claimed it was an accident when they clashed with protesters.
Protesters got into a fight near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 25, 2011.
Protesters gathered on Tahrir Square observing a truce with the police, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 25, 2011.
A woman prays in the house of her son, Srinagar, Kashmir, India, April 15, 2010.
Mountains in Kashmir seen from the air, India, April 6, 2010.
A girl helps her mother sell pin wheels on a beach in Mumbai, India, March 28, 2010.
Men play cricket in a backyard in the Fort district of Mumbai, March 28, 2010.
Young men pose for a picture in Mumbai, India, March 28, 2010.
Photographing in India is like fishing in a bucket. It’s too easy. Beautiful colors and people everywhere. Just very few Indians mind if you point your camera directly at their faces. Actually it’s the opposite. Everybody wants their picture to be taken. Not that they want you to send them the photo, not even would they want to see it on your camera’s screen. They just want to hear the click and that’s it. This has lead to a (literally) hundreds of photos in my archive of posing Indians of all ages and genders (and I mean all). I try to avoid the posing by shooting from the hip or waiting till they get bored of me. The above is one of the very few examples where I actually liked the result.
A beggar in the streets of Old Delhi, March 20, 2010.
Muslim men talk in the streets of Nizaam-ud-din, Delhi, March 20, 2010.
A street scene in Old Delhi, March 20, 2010.
