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 and that come by spending time. It helps to get the new and the strange out of the way and get to the primordial sense of ...