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Photo Essay
Work and Care on the Ghats
A cargo bicycle, a shave, a haircut: encounters with people at work and in one another’s care.
Place: Varanasi · Uttar Pradesh · India
A photo essay is a curated visual sequence in which the photographs carry the principal narrative. Verified context and Knowledge Centre links may be added without presenting personal observation as comprehensive reporting.
A working city
Along the riverfront, people carry goods, wash clothes, cut hair and shave faces. Each task occupies part of someone’s day, with its own gestures, effort and exchanges.
A man stands with a cargo bicycle loaded with metal containers. The bicycle and street are part of the encounter; so is the person looking back.
A close shaving scene shifts the scale from transport to personal care. The public nature of the setting is striking, but the act itself remains part of day-to-day life.
On painted steps, one person tends another’s hair. The bands of colour surround a small moment of care.
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