Monthly Archives: March 2012

sweeping/fegen

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

Rajasthan is quite dusty, but people like to keep their houses clean, so a lot of sweeping is involved in the daily chores. In the houses it is definitly the duty of the women and girls, but on other occasions, … Continue reading →

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Lila Sirohi

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

Lila Sirohi, aged 13, is one of the three girls, who attend class 8. One day I was invited into her house and could see, that it was very very clean. The house is on the edge of the village … Continue reading →

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Mehndi

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

The women and girls like to have Mehndis on their hands and sometimes feet, too. This is always applied on special occasions like weddings, but many like to have patterns at their daily life. Usually you can buy the Henna-paste … Continue reading →

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Cat-Photographer/Katzenfotograf

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Most of the families had cats, but none of the children was so much after taking photos of them as Surender Prihar, who was very enthusiastic and took a huge variety of cat-photos. I guess he likes them very much. … Continue reading →

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TV

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

All the families of the children have TVs and they all loved to watch. They also liked to take photos of the screen, but I didn’t like these. But I liked the photos of their TV-sets ;-) Alle Familien der … Continue reading →

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Laxman Jat

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Laxman Jat, aged 12, is also one boy from Shivnagar. Same as his friend Ashok I couldn’t find out much about his family by the photos from the memory cards, but saw, that he also frequently visited the temple. He … Continue reading →

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Surya-Puja

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

Surya is the sun in hindi. In the morning some people go out and worship the sun with a puja. Jassaram took photos, how a girl was doing this puja. Surya is die Sonne in Hindi. Am frühen Morgen gehen … Continue reading →

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Chandelao Video I

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

We did the first little Video! Here you can see a small selection of photos of children with some rajasthani music: Wir haben den ersten kleinen Video fertig! Hier gibt es eine kleine Auswahl von Fotos von Kindern mit rajasthanischer … Continue reading →

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colour-children/Farb-Kinder

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

Sometimes there are surprises of little sets of similar and remarkable photos between all the others on a memory-card. These I found one day on Lila’s memory-card. They are outstanding to all other childrens-photos in regard of colours. Manchmal gibt … Continue reading →

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Jassaram Oud

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

Jassaram Oud, aged 13, was something like the leader of the Shivnagar-boys, running around with most self-confidence. In the beginning I was very enthusiastic about his photography, I discovered so many nice photos. He was also very big in doing … Continue reading →

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