India, Agra. The challenge lay before me: how does one photograph an image as iconic as the Taj Mahal that’s been photographed so many times before and make it my own? My solution was to hire a small boat to bring me across the Yamuna River to the backside every morning. Here on the river village life unfolds in the early dawn as fisherman emerge with their nets, locals perform their early morning ablutions, animals come to drink and sadhus take their holy dip, all with the exquisite...
more »India, Agra. The challenge lay before me: how does one photograph an image as iconic as the Taj Mahal that’s been photographed so many times before and make it my own? My solution was to hire a small boat to bring me across the Yamuna River to the backside every morning. Here on the river village life unfolds in the early dawn as fisherman emerge with their nets, locals perform their early morning ablutions, animals come to drink and sadhus take their holy dip, all with the exquisite Taj Mahal almost as a forgotten back-drop.
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