One of my favourite sites, Alternet, has a photo essay here on Andrew Lichtenstein’s new book, Never Coming Home. This launches their new multimedia series and features a slideshow of some of the images used in the book as well as an interview with Lichtenstein.
Andrew Lichtenstein’s new book, Never Coming Home, shows the faces behind [...]
Entries from September 2007
September 28, 2007
Andrew Lichtenstein’s ‘Never Coming Home’
September 24, 2007
Close Encounters: Mallika
I felt inadequate and a little afraid, without quite knowing why.
Was it her toughness? Her anger? Her warmth? Was it the timbre of her voice? Or the whiplash of her patience? Was it the strength of eyes? The weight of tears? The lines on face or hands? Was it her otherness? Or sameness? The particularities [...]
September 20, 2007
Close Encounters: Hajira
(Dearest) Hajira,
I am writing to inform you (regretfully) that you will never be a doctor. Today, when I came to your house by chance (because you saw me passing on your street and I will always remember how I heard a delighted “hi” – you were imitating what I had said while meeting and leaving [...]
September 19, 2007
Saidapet slum, speech and silence
3 pm
A slum area in Saidapet.
Two girls in black hijabs lean against the gate of a small house. Curious but friendly looks. They greet me in English. There is something proud in the way they wrap their mouths around the words, learnt painstakingly.
