Pul Ke Niche

Text courtesy of Dashwood Books:
Pul Ke Niche is the first book by Nick Sethi, an American photographer of Indian extraction. What is remarkable in Sethi’s pictures of the children and families living under a freeway in New Delhi is how they boldly avoid the usual traps of photojournalism in depicting poverty – there are no sad faces, begging hands, or juxtaposing of rich and poor to illicit sympathy. Even though they are desperate, blowing-the-lid off poverty in India is clearly not Sethi’s objective, instead he portrays of the “wrongness” of their predicament, and their humor despite this, illustrated in a series of often surreal scenarios.

Pictured in the Dashwood Book Series Vol. 2 Box Set, 2013

Published by Dashwood Books, New York, 2013. Edition of 500.
60pp, 7″x9.75″

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