Monday, September 17, 2012

Jodhpur - The kid in the blue city


Jodhpur, The Blue City.
This little kid proved me once more that I'm no braveheart.

Walking through narrow streets, climbing steep stairs in the old city of Jodhpur we got lost.

Throughout India no dog had ever done us any harm. Most of them sleep anywhere they can or just randomly walk around trying to find some free and easy food.
But that day two pyedogs approached us and started barking, they looked somehow hostile and hungry: we were no snack for them that for sure, but we were in their territory and you never know.
We stopped, pretending to look somewhere else, the dogs weren't stupid enough to call our bluff. They came towards us and challenged us. They wanted food, nothing more.
As stupid as it sounds we didn't know what to do... we didn't have food nor water.

At that point our saviour arrived... this little kid started shouting and gently kicked the dogs away from us.


Incredible India

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The strength of Africa


Time is the biggest curse of our days, we never have enough, we always want more, we need more, we try to save more and not to waste any single piece of it... we plan every single step of our lives based on the time we have, and we do things only if they are really worth the time they take away from us.
This is how we approach life in Europe, we believe we are correct, we believe that this is the one and only way to live. But as we have seen in the past so many times, mankind is often wrong.
In Ghana there is a town, and maybe there are many more, where time appears to be irrelevant, where no rush is needed in doing things, where people's priorities do not exist: in this town people smile to every single second of their lives.
Men rest under the shades, children play with no toys, women smile while bringing loads of wood, food and water on their heads and little girls learn to become women.
I took this picture in a small village in Ghana in the north Volta Region. The girl was working hard to keep the fire alive and was cooking food for the family, I didn't really mean to bother her, but her father insisted I took a picture of her.
Dad was proud of her, a young girl with the eyes of a woman.

Near Jasikan (Ghana), February 2012 - The strength of Africa