IMAGES OF A JOURNEY: INDIA IN DIASPORA
By Steve Raymer
228 pages, 174 color photos
Published in Hardback (6 November 2007)
By Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253349591
Guide Price: £25.00
Rating: (4 flames)
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REDHOTCURRY REVIEW
By Lopa Patel
Rating: (4 flames)

A delicious visual feast, from the richest palette to the humblest fare in all Indian households, Raymer's book (and it is a shame to even call it a mere 'book') is a tantalising snapshot in time of the lives of ordinary Indians around the world. Accompanied by fascinating insights into global Indian migration, the part-travelogue-part-visual-diary does a full circle around the globe, following Indian migrants in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East and America, returning to the rich enclaves of returnees in Bangalore. This stunning anthology can be consumed in easy-to-digest morsels and leaves the reader replete.

SYNOPSIS

Award-winning photographer Steve Raymer has chronicled Indian migration around the world a stunning new photo essay entitled 'Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora', which documents the struggle of Indian immigrants, beginning in the 19th century with the British Empire's need for inexpensive labor and ending in Bangalore, the high-technology capital of a resurgent India. One of the most successful migrations in contemporary human history, the Indian diaspora reaches across the world's oceans to all seven continents, including Antarctica. With some 25 million people of Indian origin now living in at least 100 countries, the Indian diaspora is alive and well.

Raymer takes readers to the sugar plantations of Trinidad and the hardscrabble neighborhoods of England, as well as inside some of the top hospitals and Fortune 500 companies in the United States. His photographs put a human face on the diaspora by introducing us to doctors, scholars, business executives, artists, journalists, and ordinary people of various backgrounds. Some of his more well-known subjects include filmmaker Mira Nair, journalists Fareed Zakaria and Sanjay Gupta, and writer Ved Mehta.

Six chapters, 174 color photographs, and a foreword by author Nayan Chanda, this beautiful collection celebrates those who have changed the way the world views India.

ABOUT STEVE RAYMER

Steve Raymer, a former National Geographic staff photographer, is currently Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism. A National Press Photographers Association "Magazine Photographer of the Year," he has received awards from the Overseas Press Club and the White House News Photographers Association. His previous books include St. Petersburg and Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast Asia. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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