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Inside Mumbai:  A
Photographers' Journey by
Melinda L Erickson

A collection of photographs
captured by man who had the
good fortune to adventure behind
their lenses into Mumbai, India.  

Unique to these pages is that
what is represented is the result
of research in the city conducted
by ICES as to what Mumbaivasi
value in their local communities.  
In some cases it was a new
shopping mall or mandir; but in
others, you will be surprised at
what you discover.  What we
didn't want this to be was
another tourist book cataloging
the normal" places that visitors
are expected to want to see.  It is
intentionally a book for Mumbai,
about Mumbai, and if a tourist is
fortunate enough to discover it,
then good for them!
ICES Publishing USA
Inside Mumbai:  A Photographers' Journey by Melinda L Erickson

This is Mumbai, India.  It is a place of economic opportunity and economic
despair; a place combining new and old, rich and poor.  What it is not, is static or
in any way predictable.  It is NOT ordinary or boring.

The photographers who raised their lenses to the city's multiutudes found there
were few photo opportunities without people.  There need be no waiting for a
perfect subject, only perfect light and line.  

This book moves through the city's subtleties of place, capturing the character of
each area: it's similarities and differences from other locations.  The
photographers experienced wealth and poverty; families, festivals, trains and
transportation, jobs and joys.  And everywhere children.  

A Photographers's Journey was inspired by a cultural survey in 2005 that
questioned people about the areas in which they lived, asking them what it was
that they both liked and disliked in their localities.  Informants were asked where
they came from, how long they had lived there, what it was that they felt no one but
a resident would know about their culture and place.  The results are on these
pages, in photography and text.  

Vignettes written about each of the fifty-one areas describe on a single page how
it was the photographer felt when he or she was in the area, camera in hand.  
They express events that immediately impacted their short visit as they attempted
to capture significance in each locale: faces, landmarks, challenges and
perpetual activity as they experienced them during their time behind the lens,
inside Mumbai.

See enlarged image below.


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