COLORS OF A DYING CULTURE - THE BEAUTIFUL LAMBANI GYPSIES

Category: Travel Portraits

 

Photo and caption by Jaina Mishra

Image of two senior Lambani Gypsies, who are the last generation that wears tribal costumes and jewelry. With the cultural dilution that results from urbanisation, younger girls are no longer taught the skills of needlework that have carried the signatures of their past to the present. India, 2011.

Location: Karnataka, India

 

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