India Video - the Camera Guys
By Parasher, Posted Jun 12, 2007
Taking photos in public in India is a dying art thanks to the digital camera. Documents the pre-digital polaroid tourist photographers at the gateway to India in Mumbai.
Parasher interviews the camera wallahs, the men who still make a living by taking photos with old fashioned cameras. In many ways, going to places like India is like time travel where professions that died out long ago in the West still hang on, albeit precariously, to a changing world.
The camera men admit they have little luck with the backpackers who turn up with their digital cameras but the traditional art of photography is still a marvel to the millions of the dispossessed in India.
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