The Beggar Kid Bandra Reclamation

The Beggar Kid Bandra Reclamation, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

Most of the kids begging here come to supplement their parents income .. they are learning to beg.. their parents are basket weavers living near the Bandra Reclamation bridge.

There is another one leg well dressed junkie beggar too..and sometimes the blind beggar boy and his guardian come here to beg.

Shooting beggars for so many years I now them with mere soundless footsteps , I can spot a beggar before he spots me and shooting beggars is shooting life living on the edge now alive tomorrow gone ...media reports cases of rape kidnapping molestation and some of the beggar kids are abused by their parents , elders , young kids become mothers , case not reported because her brother did it to her and the child that comes is what brings in more money, drugged rented , but than who has time to shoot them tell their story .. so enter the blogger .

I have shot beggars at Mahim , Banganga , Haji Malang , Haji Ali Ajmer Hussain Tekri Lucknow and the pain stretches from one end of the canvas to the other end.

Shooting beggars is looked down upon...but than shooting beggars , in my case is telling incomplete untold stories .. and I dont sell pictures ... nor do I do this for money or fame , this is the path of my passion, this is my genre and I circulate it as a blog .