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The Faces of Rural India

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Window seat. An old Indian woman riding on a crowded bus in rural (Northern) India.
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Woman washing at lakeside.
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Monkey family.
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Old man drying off after washing.
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Old man washing in community area.
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Women helping one lady to cleanse a spiritual demon.
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Holy man.
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Rural woman handling chores.
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Daughter and Father in law working together on chores.
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Road side village man posing for the camera with joy.
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Government school children on the way home.
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Sheperds crossing the main road to Jaipur.
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Women working in local village.
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Tuk Tuk and holy cow share the road.
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Woman in front of village temple.
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Tribal village dancers.
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Tribal village dancers.
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Women's sari's waiting to be washed.
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Woman after washing, drying off.
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Woman watching her friends wash in the lake.
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Friends helping each other with their sari's.
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Local man greets visitors.
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Portraits of Rural India from Delhi to Kota to Jaipur. I drove for 30 hours through rural India to meet the people and understand the complexity of life. What I found was a lesson in simplicity and my own humility.

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Cherieanne

Thank you Matthew. I would love to have had more time there....thinking about going back to during monsoon season.

MatthewRichards

Superb! Reminds me so much of when I lived there...way back in 1995 and 2000-2001