Siddhesh Sali
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Rural India

Work, water and weather — eight frames of people getting on with the day, made over four years in Maharashtra.

8 frames · open one to explore

A farmer in white bent over a hoe in a green field, a conical haystack standing behind him.
01View photograph 1: A farmer in white bent over a hoe in a green field, a conical haystack standing behind him.
A man crouched on a rock casting a line into white water running fast between boulders.
02130mm · 1/200 · f/9 · ISO 100View photograph 2: A man crouched on a rock casting a line into white water running fast between boulders.
A shepherd standing on a grassy hilltop against open sky, staff across the shoulders, goats grazing around.
03300mm · 1/800 · f/6.3 · ISO 320View photograph 3: A shepherd standing on a grassy hilltop against open sky, staff across the shoulders, goats grazing around.
Two men sitting low in a small round boat on a pond covered in green weed and fallen yellow blossom.
04View photograph 4: Two men sitting low in a small round boat on a pond covered in green weed and fallen yellow blossom.
An elderly man seated on the ground in monochrome, framed by overhanging branches, looking out of frame.
05View photograph 5: An elderly man seated on the ground in monochrome, framed by overhanging branches, looking out of frame.
Two men riding a loaded motorcycle away down a wet road in morning haze, a third walking ahead.
06300mm · 1/800 · f/6.3 · ISO 200View photograph 6: Two men riding a loaded motorcycle away down a wet road in morning haze, a third walking ahead.
Two street dogs standing alert on stony ground, seen through dry golden grass in the foreground.
07300mm · 1/500 · f/6.3 · ISO 320View photograph 7: Two street dogs standing alert on stony ground, seen through dry golden grass in the foreground.
A flat-topped acacia silhouetted against a yellow dusk sky, with birds scattered across it.
08190mm · 1/500 · f/5.6 · ISO 250View photograph 8: A flat-topped acacia silhouetted against a yellow dusk sky, with birds scattered across it.

Made between 2017 and 2021, mostly within a couple of hours of home.

These are the frames I am least willing to crop. The distance between the camera and the person in them is the picture.

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