Extrêmes

“Take time to be thankful for everything that you have, you can always have more but also have less”

I got to travel India.

New Delhi, Jaipur & Agra (planes, trains & automobiles)

Bucket list: Check

Excitement & fear for not having the stomach or the strength.

I wanted to see the Taj Mahal, soak up the culture and eat lots of Indian food.

I flew with my brothers to New Delhi 2 weeks ago.

Photographer’s paradise;

Faces & fascination

Beauty & the beast

The crowds & the forgotten

Poverty & palaces

Dirt & diamonds

Cardboard boxes & castles

Food & none

India is everything & not.

Loud & lovely

Oppressive & kind

True & unethical

India is overwhelming, India is extreme. India is a sensory overload of unfamiliar smells, strange sights & constant noise.

India is pure & indescribable; beauty & darkness on one plate.

India is chaos on all fronts,  yet people seem to have accepted their fate.

Extreme wealth or extreme poverty

Survival.

Day in day out

No choice

It has been 2 weeks now but I still go to sleep with images of children playing in piles of trash because they had no where else to go, I still see animals everywhere eating that same trash because there was no green grass in sight.

I still wake up to children begging for something to eat & watching people bath and do their laundry in the polluted water running through their cities.

I travelled India; 9 days of extreme beauty & intense pain, a cultural rollercoaster from the beginning until the end.

I fell in love with something I can’t describe.

In order to understand, you have to feel, live & see India through your own eyes.

Mine cried every day.