Railway sadhu
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under notes, photography
A bridge at the Dharavi railway station
I’ve been talking to an Indian friend — shout out to Kali in New York — about poverty in India. Do we see it differently than we do poverty in America? Granted, I spent the final eight months of my Post-Dispatch career covering poverty in St. Louis, so perhaps I have different perspective. And I also spent my last week in Nairobi traveling through the slums there.
Our conversation inspired me to post a photo from my first solo trip to India, in 2002. Kali specifically remembered this photo.
I went looking for gripping, raw poverty and found it, in Dharavi, the sprawling Mumbai slum that later inspired Slumdog Millionaire. This was one of dozens of photos I shot that afternoon. The old man was sitting quietly on a railway bridge just on the edge of the slum.
God bless that Nikon F4 and 20mm lens.
Tags: dharavi, india, journalism, photography, poverty, sadhu
