Chinese Fishingnets Today the Chinese fishing nets in the Indian coastal town of Kochi are a mixture of tradition and tourist attraction. The nets are lowered into the water using ropes. The catch is then sold at the fish market a few metres away.

Girl in Rickshaw The eyes give her and thus the picture its expressiveness. A girl looks out of a rickshaw in a small side street in the Indian city of Hampi.

Boy on Stonebench A boy rests on a stone bench in Hampi, India.

Shoe Store This is what efficient use of space looks like. A shoe seller is in the middle of his shop, which probably has more shoes on the floor than most specialized western shoe dealers do.

Drying Laundry After the laundry has been washed in the river, it is spread out on large stones on the riverside to dry. Due to the heat of the sun, it takes less than an hour for towels, trousers and such to dry quickly, efficiently and in an environmentally friendly way. [...]

Himalayan Toy Train The Toy Train is a narrow-gauge railway that winds its way through the tea villages of the southern Himalayas to the world-famous tea region of Darjeeling on an altitude of over 2000 meters. Even though the railway today is mainly used by tourists, the market stalls and pedestrians still have to [...]

Man carries Basket In the turmoil of the KR market in the South Indian metropolis Bangalore this man spotted me while taking pictures of him. The discoloration of the surroundings gives the picture a little more calmness and enables the viewer's eye to focus on the man and his basket.

Red Cones One might think here are red spices lined up, maybe chili powder. In fact, it is red powder paint that is piled up as cones. Indians buy the paint to make the traditional Bindis (red dots) on their forehead.

Vote for Congress Election Poster Shortly after the announcement of the election results in India in June 2019, an election poster of the Congress Party was still hanging on a house wall. However, the parliamentary election was won again by Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Virupaksha Temple What Athens is for Greece and Rome for Italy is in a sense Hampi for India. In the village north of Bangalore, one can explore countless old, mostly dilapidated temples scattered among the hills. Virupaksha Temple is one of the few that is still actively used today.