I made a number of images using a wideangle lens to embrace the entire operation. However my telephoto lens allowed me to optically move much closer, including less, but saying more. In this shot, only a very small part of the vast laundry is visible. Yet we are able to come close enough to easily spot the men who work in the lower part of this image, and we can still see the hundreds of individual garments hanging on the lines. With so many clothes being washed and dried every day, one wonders how so many customers manage not to wind up with another persons pants in their laundry. Apparently the Ghat keeps excellent track of “who may belong to what” here. Clothes are marked in code, done in permanent ink on small scraps of cotton tied to the garment.