One-horse burg in the Oriente
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under ecuador
Who needs a car?
Most “villages” in the Oriente are little more than a scattering of houses alongside the main road. Few people here have much in the way of major possessions. Large consumer goods — like cars — are almost nonexistant.
But horses, those beasts of burden, are a little more plentiful. Transportation, labor and investment, with four legs.
Tags: economy, ecuador, en la selva, horse, oriente, photography, poverty
Shuar warriors
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under ecuador
Warrior pose
During the three weeks I volunteered in the Ecuadorian Amazon, or “en la selva,” I lived in a Shuar community caught between traditional practices and modernization. Meet our volunteer director, Enrique Vargas, a 23-year-old who is studied in traditional ways, drips machismo and wants, in male Shuar fashion, multiple wives. Continue reading this entry » » »
Tags: arutam, culture, ecuador, en la selva, enrique, photography, poverty, shenanigans, shuar, volunteering
Village markets, small economies
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Waiting for dad to buy dinner
Wednesdays are market days in Bhuriakop. That means a few merchants set up shop in the misty valley and locals stock up as much as they can.
Usually there’s a vegetable vendor or two, a clothing man, a spice wallah and a few other sundries. Otherwise, shopping takes place in larger towns which are half an hour or more by jeep. Continue reading this entry » » »
Tags: bhuriakop, economy, india, market, photography, poverty, sikkim
Dung flats
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Dirty work, but someone's got to do it
An overhead of the muddy yard of a poor farming family in Siliguri. Their primary occupation: collecting dung from their cattle.
Tags: cattle, cow, dung, farming, india, manure, photography, poor, poverty, siliguri
Up with the sun, up with the cattle
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Good day, cows
Village life in the deserts of Rajasthan.
Tags: cattle, cow, india, jaisalmer, photography, poverty, rajasthan, village
Street life
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Street ledge home
A family keeps its household wares sprawled out on a step along the sidewalk where they sleep. The New Horizon Sugar Mill is now defunct.
Pondicherry hip shot.
Tags: begging, emerging nations, india, photography, pondicherry, poverty, street
Getcha hot, salty nuts here!
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Masala peanut
Peanuts are my favorite snack in India, by far. Maybe my favorite snack anywhere (especially since I learned baby carrots are simply shaved big carrots).
The photos come from an afternoon visit to a peanutwallah in Pondicherry. Mom bought peanuts, I took pictures, he demanded an extra 10 rupees.
I’m used to the fact that people want money when I take their picture. I treat cases individually. For journalistic photos, I try to explain in bad Hindi about photoJ ethics and how I don’t pay for photos. In personal settings (i.e., photos of a peanut wallah), I’ll usually just cough up the extra few rupees. C’est la vie.
I do balk at extortionate demands. Like the one from the guy who wanted five hundred rupees for a picture of his monkey (true story) in Delhi. He got 50 out of me and that was a stretch, made possible only because the monkey backflipped. PETA was crying.
I should also note that the peanut wallah also had a disabled right eye. Disabilities can often relegate someone to the bottom of the economic ladder in India. Indeed, as a street snack vendor, he’s one of the country’s huddled masses living on a couple dollars a day.
But he does roast a damn fine peanut.
Tags: disability, economy, emerging nations, india, peanut, photography, pondicherry, poverty, snack, tourism, wallah
A plea from the uninsured…
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under united states
Today, in Washington, D.C., on the floor of the chamber of the U.S. House, your elected officials will tilt on the topic of health care. This is being billed as a marquee showdown, an epic vote.
I’ve read through parts and summaries of reports from the Congressional Budget Office and followed the big news outlets now and then, but I can’t claim to have been very diligent. I also will note that this blog is mostly a-political. After the better part of four years as a political reporter, I find politics vital but bluster and bombast all the same.
But I will offer a personal plea now for calm, cool reason. And for compassion. And for common sense, which tells us the system is broken for more than 30 million Americans, myself included.
I will try to be brief:
Continue reading this entry » » »
Tags: cluster, congress, exercise, health, health care, india, medicine, politics, poverty, united states
The kids love me
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Home, dusty home
I take pictures of street kids everywhere I go. This comes from the bare home of some poor families my cousin does work with in and around Jaipur. I visited them in 2004.
I enjoy pictures of children for many reasons. Though still don’t know if I want my own some day, I appreciate their innocence, their relativism and their ability to laugh in most circumstances.
I’m traveling at the moment in Rajasthan with Joel and Kate. I won’t be near the Internet much for several days. Enjoy preset blog posts.
Tags: india, jaipur, kids, photography, portrait, poverty, rajasthan, slum
Keep the dung fires burning
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Resourceful, them Gorkhas, huh?
Dung rolled into balls and left to dry in the sun. It’s pretty common in the developing world to recycle animal waste into fuel. Or as plaster. Or flooring.
This comes from a front-step of a house in Ghoom, near Darjeeling. During the winter across northern India, poor people use these dung fuel for heating fires. They’re also used year-round for cooking.
Tags: darjeeling, dung, emerging nations, energy, fuel, ghoom, india, photography, poverty, recycling
