A child smiles from a doorway while a dog looks through bars in a nearby opening, Varanasi, 2019

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Childhood

Children at doorways, on the steps and in motion: brief encounters from the 2014 and 2019 photographs.

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Childhood

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A young girl in yellow and dark blue clothing stands for a portrait in Varanasi, 2019 — **Young Girl**A direct childhood portrait.V-2019-090

A barefoot boy carrying a small metal container walks across the ghats, captured with motion blur, Varanasi, 2019 — **Boy in Motion**Movement across the riverfront.V-2019-088

Children look through gaps in a broken wooden window above a patterned cloth in Varanasi, 2019 — **Faces at a Window**Faces appear briefly through a weathered window.V-2019-130

A group of boys in coordinated practice on the ghat steps in Varanasi, photographed in 2014 — **Collective Practice**Repeated posture and gesture create visual rhythm. The exact activity is left undescribed where the record is uncertain.V-2014-484

Four children bathe at the edge of the Ganges while an adult sits wrapped in white nearby, Varanasi, 2019 — **Children Bathing**Children BathingV-2019-874

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Pandu in a yellow shirt, his hands raised behind his head, beside the riverfront.

Varanasi: A Day Among Friends

Pandu on the Ganges, Baba’s family home and an invitation into the Ramayana — a day shaped by friendship.

A woman and young girl standing outside a yellow doorway.

Invitation Inside — Family

An invitation into a home led to a family portrait that also records the photographer's presence.

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Photographic Collection

Childhood

Children at doorways, on the steps and in motion: brief encounters from the 2014 and 2019 photographs.

Explore the collection

Childhood

Each collection brings together photographs through a shared subject. Follow an image into its story, or discover it again through another place or theme.

Explore this subject across India

Related photographic encounters

Follow this theme through individual encounters in the wider archive.

Varanasi: A Day Among Friends

Pandu on the Ganges, Baba’s family home and an invitation into the Ramayana — a day shaped by friendship.

Invitation Inside — Family

An invitation into a home led to a family portrait that also records the photographer's presence.

Continue exploring

Return to the archive entrance →Journey by place →Learn about the documentary approach →