The Known Beggar Faces of Bandra

The Known Beggar Faces of Bandra, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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He is a Muslim beggar sits at the Bazar or at various Bandra by lanes with a stick in hand , he begs silently , he does not impose his demands on you , you have you give you dont have you move along.

Whats his name I dont know .I never take personal details when I shoot pain as I see it clustered on the streets.

He sits at Boran Lane too .

The blind beggar boy and his guardian have disappeared completely.

The beggar world is nomadic itinerant without permanency of place.

People who normally get upset when they see people like us taking pictures of the beggars are invariably those hypocrites who wont even give a coin to this man..

They get upset that we show India in a bad light..but the rest of India that one reads in newspapers they dont mind , the corruption , the defamation of our nationality by people in high places who get away buying everything that comes their way.

The Limouzine guy the Medicine man , cricket spams are all ignored only photographers shooting beggars are hung by their balls.


We show without morphing what lies on the street , yesterday I shot a series at Bandra Hill Road , a beggar who was stinking with his feces was lying on the pavement , he had a club foot and was in pathetic state , his stink has not left my nostrils.

A Police van came and with great effort put him on a stretcher I shot the entire sequence and for the cops doing this charitable service must have been the hardest one I could read their disgusted minds and thought.

This time the cops were picking up scum from the street and he was not a terrorist they could shoot on site I did..