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25-MAR-2008

Bewilderment, Chandbaori, India, 2008

I also made this image through the open door of our bus while we were stopped for supplies in Chandbaori. Whenever tourists come to a rural town in India, a crowd is likely to gather. This woman was one of several who came to just stare at our bus in bewilderment. To her, we might have just been well been visitors from Mars. Because I was shooting at my longest focal length (420mm) from inside of a shadowed bus, and she was looking into a bright sun, she never saw me. She responds to her own thoughts, not to my presence, largely because of my invisibility within the bus, which functions here as a photographer’s blind.

Leica V-Lux 1
1/400s f/5.6 at 88.8mm iso100 full exif

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Phil Douglis22-Apr-2008 02:17
Thanks, Azlin -- the gesture is one of confusion and bewilderment. And yes, she may well be amazed, and is certainly vulnerable.
Guest 22-Apr-2008 01:33
I love how she is fingering her lip. Something that you would see a small child do, which I guess lends to the since of amazement and vulnerability.
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