1st March to 1st April 2013

ESCAPE TO INDIA

Photos by Alice Čermáková

Travel to India took place at the turn of November and December 2011. It took three weeks and we, three women, travelled mainly the desert state of Rajasthan. The travel began in Dili-Mandawa-Bikaner-Jaisalmer-Jodhpur- Udaipur- Pushkar- Jaipur- Ranthambhore- Agra- Varanasi- Dili. We travelled in a lent car Tata, the way from Agra to Varanasi and back to Dili by train. The photos are from Canon EOS 60D camera. What about India? It is beyond description, unbelievable, ungraspable and sometimes unfathomable land for us. Simply INCREDIBLE INDIA, because here everything really IS incredible. Colourful phantoms against the grey desert, elephants in the streets, beautiful girl washing dishes in the Ganges just a few metres form burning ghats, cows eating foil and plastic in the streets, blossoms of tagetes floating in the Ganges next to a dead swollen body of something… Eda Kriseová put it nicely in her book “Čísi svět”: “All the horrible things are just more horrible and all the beautiful things are more beautiful in India. There is a huge gulf n between which needs to be leaped over all the time…”

Introductory picture, photo Ing. Arch. Alice Čermáková (born March 3, 1958), freelance architect. Taking photos since her childhood, she graduated Prague photographic school in 2005–2006. She lives and works in Řevnice near Prague. www.femmearch.cz