Clicking India through a different lens

Three Australian photojournalists who live in India share their South Asian travelogue with Anisha Ralhan

Resisting the use of the popular cliche of portraying India as a land of wailing babies, naked hermits and stray cattle, three Australian photojournalists -- Daniel Barehulak, Graham Crouch and Adam Ferguson -- captured the diverse personalities of the country in their photo-exhibition Crossing Paths held at the Australian high commission in New Delhi recently.

The photographs essayed their journey across the length and breadth of South Asia -- India, Pakistan and Afghanistan -- after moving out of Australia a year ago. Their roving lenses have managed to capture some defining moments in the history of these developing nations.

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"It is a plethora of riddles to form one profound mystery," says Crouch, who has been working for an Australian newspaper for several years and was posted to Delhi 18 months ago.

He rambled through the streets of Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Pondicherry in search of his muse. He was overwhelmed with the results.

For Barehulak, who works with Getty Images, photojournalism is all about being objective in the pursuit of truth.

He feels in India one tends to overlook the daily decadence of slums while picturing the flamboyance of the upper middle class and vice-versa. The montage of his pictures shot in India bear testimony to this.

When asked about the daunting moments in his career, Barehulak says he had escaped bullets, nearly been abducted by the Taliban, survived terrorists in combative terrains of Afghanistan. "We have been fortunate, I reckon," he says.

Crouch says you can either be a journalist or a coward; the twain shall never meet.