11:18 PM

#TRIBES: I find myself in #Okha on 16 July 2009, quite far west in #India, letting the world come to me. I miss the colour. Happy #Holi everyone. #photojournalism

11:13 PM

#TRIBES: more re-grading from 2009, following the nomadic tribes of #Gujarat around the state. #india #photojournalism #nomads #tribes

11:12 PM

#TRIBES: I envy my musician friends who have been able to carry on creating during the pandemic, I’ve got nothing new. Well, not really. What I do have is a different way of looking at things than I did 12 years ago, so I’m pulling out pictures that were never shown, or appeal to me now, or have stuck in my mind. The technology is better so they’re getting re-graded from RAW, and I hope you enjoy them. I wonder what has become of all the subjects. #india #nomadic #tribes #gujarat #photojournalism

8:22 AM

#THEPIER: time for a cigarette. #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photojournalism #streetphoto #leicaq2 #leica

3:36 PM

#EARTHQUAKE: enough lockdown arts and crafts, back to the main backlog. Rescuing people from the ruins of the 2001 #Gujarat Earthquake #photojournalism #contaxg2

11:52 AM

#ARGH A routine request for an archived photograph from five years #noproblem has turned into a complete archive rebuild #eek having discovered that it was incomplete. #feck #photojournalism #mac #archive #lightroom #bloodyhell

11:35 AM

The amount of research you have to do before beginning a story only to ditch the story. Still, now I’m a veritable expert on the subject. #water #research #photojournalism

9:06 PM

Sniff. One day, when I have bookshelves again. #photojournalism #books

Apparently, there’s a lot I don’t know about preparing a major body of work. Over the next few weeks, I’ll have to soak up a lot of guidance from my tutors about how this is different from a simple photo story.

Rather than dig something exciting from my ideas book, I’ve decided to go for something familiar that I know, and pursue more exciting ideas once I graduate.

The subjects are the Denotified Nomadic Tribes of Gujarat, whom I spent some time meeting and photographing last February. I went through the local NGO who briefed me on the history of all the groups, the issues and adversity the tribes face, and how things have begun to change.

This time, I have the luxury of time, and intend to cover more areas in much more depth. I’ve got two months in Gujarat, I speak their language, I have family backup in the state and injustice is a subject I and many others feel strongly about. The original story from 2008: The Usual Suspects