Travel Photography Scholarship 2011 Entry

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

WORLDWIDE | Sunday, 6 November 2011 | Views [156]

Traditional village weddings are changing and becoming more Westernized, but are not yet altogether eradicated. Here, musicians in a wedding band take a break in the shade. They have accompanied the bride as she rides on a donkey from her house to her husband’s house where she will now live. Each of them was taught by his father how to play his instrument and the traditional types of music.

Many peasants in this village raise sheep to sell for their wool and meat. Obedient creatures, the sheep are let out of their pens once a day to run circles around the village paths for a spot of exercise.

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One of the last set of women to have her feet bound, she crawls around the courtyard on her hands and knees when she thinks she is alone. In her 80s now, her bound feet are still painful. In younger days she was known locally for her skill as a paper cutter. Here, with a chopped-off fingertip (farming accident) and a giant tumor in her wrist, she takes scissors and slices through a delicate sheet of paper for the first time in many years.

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Travel Photography Scholarship 2011 Entry

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