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		<title>MONSOON SHOWERS &amp; PHOTOGRAPHING DITA VON TEESE</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/10/08/photographing-dita-von-teese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dita von Teese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unexpected events and unforeseen circumstances are an inevitable part of a photographer's life. Such moments can be the source substantial stress and it is important to minimize the likelihood of them happening. But surprises also have the potential to transform a mundane moment into something very special. I held on to this positive thought while I photographed Dita von Teese. ]]></description>
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		<title>INTERNATIONAL WOMEN&#8217;S DAY</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2011/03/08/international-women-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development assignments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tompietrasik.com/?p=1456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think of an Indian farmer and it is likely that you will conjure up the image of a man, dressed a dhoti - or perhaps wearing a turban - toiling in a field of wheat or rice. But as Neelam Prabhat of AROH pointed out to me last week, it is women who shoulder the burden of 70 to 80 percent of the agricultural work that takes place in India.]]></description>
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		<title>FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE FEATURES INDIA MINING STORY</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/08/29/foreign-policy-magazine-features-india-mining-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chattisgarh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jason Miklian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Mikian is a researcher with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo and, together with award-winning journalist Scott Carney, he has just published an article on Indian mining in Foreign Policy Magazine. Miklian and Carney's story documents the shocking conditions forced upon local people in the name of progress and development in both Jharkhand and the neighbouring state of Chhattisgarh.The published article features a few of my photographs too.]]></description>
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		<title>TRANSGENDER PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/06/24/india-transgender-photographs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defined by their sexual-orientation, Aravanis are rarely accepted by India's largely conservative society. As a consequence, many are tormented by the disapproving gaze of others and suffer a lonely existence from which they seldom find solace. The transgender gathering I photographed in the Tamil town of Koovagam is one such occasion when Aravanis are able to emerge and take centre-stage - if only for a few short days a year.]]></description>
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		<title>MUMBAI INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHY</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/04/19/mumbai-interior-divya-thakur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apartment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian Weekend Magazine recently commissioned me to photograph Divya Thakur's beautiful apartment, housed in a 100 year-old colonial building in Mumbai's Colaba neighbourhood. Thakur runs Design Temple, a graphics firm she established ten years ago.]]></description>
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		<title>DELHI&#8217;S MONKEY PROBLEM</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/04/04/delhi-monkey-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tompietrasik.com/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The only means to avert the menace of rhesus monkeys appears to be securing the services of a langur monkey. And this is precisely the solution employed by British High Commissioner. I don't make a habit of visiting the High Commission but a few years ago I found myself relaxing on the ample lawn of the residence when I noticed a short man approaching me. Strolling alongside him was a monkey tied to a leash. As the man got closer, I realised that his companion was almost the same height as he was. This monkey was very different from the small rhesus variety that I had seen menacing my neighbourhood. Instead of the ubiquitous limp and incessant scratching that seem to be the curse of all rhesus monkeys, this creature walked with an elegant gait and wore a beautiful grey fur coat that appeared entirely fitting given the opulent surroundings.]]></description>
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		<title>ELA BHATT, SEWA AND THE RIGHTS OF INDIAN WORKERS</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/03/21/ela-bhatt-rights-india-workers-sewa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/03/21/ela-bhatt-rights-india-workers-sewa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ela Bhatt is founder of the Self Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA), a union which represents the rights of over one million workers. She lives in the west Indian city of Ahmedebad and while I was there to photograph her last month she took me to meet some of SEWA's members among the vegetable vendors of the city.]]></description>
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		<title>THE REALITY OF MINING IN INDIA</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/03/07/coal-mining-jharkhand-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Sahay then, I should have come across a lot of enthusiasm and hope among this population who either directly or indirectly [depend] on the Bokaro Steel Plant for a living. But I didn't. Instead I photographed a poor and dejected community, eking out a living on the fringes of a mine that employes few local residents. I saw women collecting coal as lumps of it toppled from the huge trucks exiting the mines. Close by, families living in grotty hovels, were selling plastic bottles of petrol to passing motor vehicles. This was trickle down economics at work, honouring those who’ve been forced to sacrifice their land in the name of growth.]]></description>
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		<title>SERENDIPITY AND PHOTOGRAPHY</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/02/15/serendipity-luck-photography-fortunate-moments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/02/15/serendipity-luck-photography-fortunate-moments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.tompietrasik.com/?p=708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes this kind of photography exciting for me is the notion that these moments happen all the time. As Elliot Erwitt, Webb's colleague at Magnum Photos, says, "You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them." Of course for the most part, these "pictures" pass the world by because no one was there to capture them.]]></description>
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		<title>PHOTOGRAPHING INDIA&#8217;S FOG</title>
		<link>http://www.tompietrasik.com/2010/01/30/photographing-indias-fog-rickshaw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Pietrasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[However I have to admit to suffering a tinge of frustration because, as all photographers know, fog can make for dramatic pictures. This photograph of rickshaw drivers grappling with the cold was taken before dawn while I waited for my Delhi-bound train to arrive at Moradabad station in northern India. I'd spent the previous week photographing a polio vaccination campaign for UNICEF and though this picture had nothing to do with the commissioned work, it was perhaps the most memorable image that I captured on that trip. As is so often the case in photography, it was the incidental moment, neither planned nor anticipated that yielded the most significant result.]]></description>
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