I live in the southern tip of India, in Pondicherry a former French colony on the Bay of Bengal. It has a vibrant art community - painters, potters, photographers and a slower pace than India's teeming metros. I like to photograph the space where people interact with their sense of sacred, so the holy cities of India, fairs, festivals, temples and ceremonies attract me a lot. I believe that in India one needs to go beyond the distraction of the exotic a ...