DAY 80

Last day and farewell party at the swiss embassy. 

My exhibition at the swiss embassy was very successful. We were waiting for 50 people and more than a hundred showed up. I had the pleasure to see my images in big size for the first time and I think they are beautiful. My adventure in India is finished, it was great and i am already working on the next project that hopefully will bring me back here. 

Thanks to all the people who helped me, supported me and made my trip so easy and fruitful : 

In Jaipur

Vinay Sharma
Sarojani Chachlani
Sandeep Agrawal
Dasrath Singh
Ummed Singh Nirvan
Bhagirath Singh

In Delhi

Chandrika Grover Ralleigh
Sadaf Raza
Blessy Augustine
Lionel Dentan
Ish
Raoul Amaar Abbas
Ambassador Linus von Castelmur and his wife

see you soon !

DAY 73

Shooting Delhi day 1.

Looks like it worked ! I thought I'll never make it but the first day of shooting in Delhi is done. Tomorrow is the last day and i hope there won't be clouds...

DAY 72

My exhibition and farewell party will take place next week at the swiss embassy in Delhi near the swimming pool. First it was supposed to take place in the garden but the wife of the ambassador had the great idea to move it around the swimming pool.

DAY 68

Dj-set at The Living Room in Hauz Khaz the trendy block of Delhi. Very nice evening with a live from Ish and some Ukrainian friends of him.

 

DAY 67

Lunch with the ambassador. 

So i've been invited to lunch with the swiss ambassador. First i thought it was a collective invitation with a lot of people but it was only me and the ambassador and his wife... very nice people, we talked about architecture, movies and tv series and they proposed to show my work in the embassy in stead of Pro Helvetia office, so that's what is gonna happen on 15th of this month, just before my flight home. We had chicken and a delicious chocolate ice-cream. They are very interesting people with lot of stories to tell. It was a very good moment in this beautiful building. Thank you Dr. Linus von Castelmur and your lovely wife. 

DAY 66

Mean bureaucrats win by K.O.

This morning i was welcome by this words "we can not assure the security of your camera, somebody is gonna steal it"... why did they not tell me that yesterday at the same time they where telling me "ok, ok, everything is ok" ? I can only guess that it was for the pleasure of a long lasting fight. So i officially surrendered, i won't shoot in Delhi, i still don't understand what this attitude was about, they could have use my work for free, they could have made a good image of themselves supporting art and the international diffusion of their beautiful patrimony but they preferred to hassle and deny so i find only fair not to feature any image of Delhi in my work and concentrate on Jaipur where people have been so friendly and supportive. Now back to real work in preparation for my exhibition next week in the office of Pro Helvetia who has done everything in his power to help me but couldn't beat such a high level of bureaucratic non-sense. On the bright side it means that i won't have to wake up at 5 in the morning anymore :)