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06-DEC-2016

Motorbikes, Bombay, India, 2016

By 2020, there will be more than two hundred million motorbikes and motorcycles on the road in India. Bombay is already flooded with them. I made this photo of a small motorbike shop in Bombay’s Muslim Quarter. Motorized cycles seem to flow through the midst of it. Some are halted for the moment, while others are either parked or are in motion. The yellow and red sign above the shop leaps out at us. We see a man in Muslim dress relaxing in a chair, watching the parade of cyclists roar past. The window of this shop is filled with helmets, but woman riding in the back of the motorcycle in the foreground does not wear one. Cycling accidents take many lives each year in Mumbai, the growl and sputter of engines is constant, and this city’s infamous air pollution is not getting any better.

Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LX10
1/640s f/2.8 at 8.8mm iso125 full exif

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