I shot this in Jaipur, at the hotel I was staying at. There’s nothing posed about it from my recollection and as far as I remember, the girl was very happy to have her photo taken, but she’s got quite a strong stance in the image. There’s almost a defiant expression there and it certainly took me back when I saw my contact sheet for this – I took so many pictures of people while I was away, I’ve found that I seem to have suffered blank out periods where I really can’t remember anything about the interaction.

But I guess that is a good thing, because it allows me to take the image for what it is, rather than what I wanted it to be. That’s the beauty about a bit of distance between shooting and processing.

Now, the reason why I wanted to show you this image is because I think it’s fairly mono-chromatic. All the tones are sort of reddish-brown. Personally, I love it (but I’m apt to like my own work – it’s what I do – so no surprises there). This is one image that would be very tempting to turn into a black and white because it just has different shades of the same colour, but then again, there’s nothing wrong with having a colour image that is mono-chromatic. There’s a lot of warmth in those tones and that is something that would, I feel be missing from a black and white image.