Street portraits of office-going men in Calcutta
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I was in Calcutta earlier this year, making street portraits of middle-aged, middle-income, office-going Bengali men, locally called ‘babus’. I was fascinated by these near-fictional characters that roamed the streets of Calcutta, and particularly by their sense of fashion, which hadn’t moved on from the ‘50s. But they seemed to prefer it that way.
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chiara Thursday 3 May 2012
Lol most of them look like they hardly wanted their photo taken. The stuck-in-the 50′s fashion is pretty funny too. It might be a British thing. Still, how can they dress like that in that climate?! Seriously, neck collars and sweatervests? They live at the Equator of the Earth! Looks much classier than what some of my generation of guys wear though, at least they don’t have their pants falling off their a**es.