India

India
has the ability to conjure a multitude of different images
unique to each person that visits it. Most of us may get an
immediate view of images like one of these: a herd of skinny cows
scattered all over a barren, over-grazed field; trains and buses
overcrowded with people on its roof; naked yogis and Sadhus,
beggars etc.

To photographer Claudia Legge the word India conjures a mood, a
way of life, and a feeling. The colours with which the people paint
their homes and dress themselves (they are amongst the most fashion
conscious of cultures) represent an identity and an individuality
which combines to create a sumptuous mantle over the poverty and
dirt. It is not so much covering over the cracks as ignoring them,
and celebrating instead beauty and optimism brilliantly conveyed in
this series of images.

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