In November we went to India for three weeks as part of the American Jewish World Service India Study Tour . Our group of about 20, including AJWS staff and donors visited some of the 40+ projects in India that AJWS supports. We met with grassroots organizations created to help bring people the rights and services they need to deal with the harsh conditions and move themselves out of poverty. We had the chance to meet with many people who are participating in these organizations and to visit their villages and homes. Needless to say, we came away inspired by their ability, their courage, and their sense of community. We're hoping to write a more complete description of our experience, but for the moment this is just have a bare outline to provide a structure for the photos.
I've put together two photo pages. The main one, http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/india/ is organized along the chronology of the trip, showing the places we went and the people we met. This one, http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/india/themes.html groups some of the pictures into themes (people, animals, transport, the tour group,...) Many of the pictures in the theme photos also appear somewhere in the chronology, but not all.
The entire batch of photos on these pages ( less than half of what we took, but the better half) are in my public Picasa Web Album http://picasaweb.google.com/terry.winograd On the pages, I've provided three different ways to access each group. [Photos] displays them one at a time and you can click through using the arrows. You can also do this by just clicking on the sample photo. [Gallery] brings up a page with small versions all the photos in the group. You can click on any one of them to go to individual photos. [Slideshow] goes to an automatic slideshow that moves through the slides at 3 seconds apiece (you can set the speed). In all cases, they will open in a separate window or tab from this page, so to continue to the next set, don't use the back button, but click back on this page.
First we picked our favorite 100 photos (not an easy task given that we took more than 2,000). Some for what they show, others just for the aesthetics.
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Of course the most fascinating part of the trip was the people we saw and met. This group of photos has our favorite shots of people from all the places we went.
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Yes, there are lots of cows in India, in almost every street. Also we saw pigs, goats, snakes, camels, elephants, and best of all, monkeys who love Coca Cola..
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Much of the work in India (as much of the rest of life) goes on in the streets. So even though we didn't visit any workplaces, we got lots of pictures of people building, selling, repairing, sweeping, and more.
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Indian cities are one big traffic jam. Part of the fun is the variety of vehicles - cars, trucks, busses, autorickshaws, real rickshaws, motorcycles, camels, ox carts, horse carts,... We collected a batch of pictures that give some idea of the variety.
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A few street scenes giving the feel for some of the places we went.
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One of the basic themes of Indian art and architecture is geometrically repeated patterns. Once I noticed them, I started seeing them everywhere, and collected a variety of examples.
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We enjoyed traveling with a very convivial and also interesting group of people, including Ruth Messinger, AJWS president, and several AJWS staff. We didn't try to systematically photograph the group, so these are a random mix of pictures.
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Finally, for the family, pictures of us on the trip.
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