India, the land of diversities well known for its rich colors, contradictions and wonderful cultures running within every state along the length and breadth. How mystical and magical would it be for a street photographer to perceive and present some of the grandiose pictures designing the beauty and strange contrasts of this country.
Over the years, its been the photographers from other countries who has always cherished and captured the true essence of this land. Right from the age of Henri Cartier-Bresson many American, English and European Photographers had showed a major interest to travel India for its gift of cultural variety and abundant landscape beauty. The People of this land seem to be more than welcoming to the photographers. To underline a Stat, renowned Photo Journalist Steve McCurry has traveled India more than 85 good times.
Almost in all the pictures here, the idea of vision and the art of seeing has been borrowed and learnt from the master photographers who were foreign to this country. The surprises they encountered has been translated into beautiful photographs, which later became a valuable example for others to pursue.
We wanted to give a glimpse of this land filled with cultural contrasts and vibrant people. Here in this post we have selected some absolutely stunning pictures from various ingenious photographers around the world. We strongly believe these pictures would stir and produce more young talents to boom from this incredible country.
All photos are linked and lead to the sources from which they were taken. Please feel free to explore further works of these photographers on their collections or their personal sites.
Photo Credit: Nicolas Portnoï
Photo Credit: Maciej Dakowicz
Photo Credit: Prasad Mahale
Photo Credit: Oochappan
Photo Credit: Sami ur Rahman
Photo Credit: Lyle Vincent
Photo Credit: Marji Lang
Photo Credit: Prateek Dubey
Photo Credit: Guru Nathan
Photo Credit: Soumya Bandyopadhyay
Photo Credit: Sanzen
Photo Credit: Prateek Dubey
Photo Credit: Apratim Saha
Photo Credit: Akshathkumar Shetty
Photo Credit: Freddy Nagarvala
Photo Credit: Amit Gupta
Photo Credit: Siddharthan Raman
Photo Credit: Fredcan
Photo Credit: Daniele Romagnoli
Photo Credit: Claire Pismont
Photo Credit: Camilla Nyqvist
Photo Credit: Dick Verton
Photo Credit: Daniele Romagnoli
Photo Credit: ulambert
Photo Credit: Yaman Ibrahim
Photo Credit: Soumya Bandyopadhyay
Photo Credit: Igor Laptev
Photo Credit: Fredcan
Photo Credit: Apratim Saha
Photo Credit: Prasath
Photo Credit: Anurag Agnihotri
Photo Credit: Claude Renault
Photo Credit: Massimo Sbreni
Photo Credit: Roy Del Vecchio
Photo Credit: Mukesh Shah
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