Blue


  • Photographer
    Nick Ng
  • Prize
    2nd Place / Editorial/Other_ED
  • Company/Studios
    Freelance
  • Date of Photograph
    24/11/2010

The homes of the slums of Delhi, as well as other parts of India, are mostly painted a unique blue, a colour synonymous with the Brahmins, higher caste members of the priestly class. The painting of the homes in indigo has been followed by the majority of the lower caste people, chasing an illusionary dream of their inner want in attaining a certain higher status in India. The bipolar distance between the rich and poor remains vast, with the majority finding themselves below the poverty line. This series depicts a single mother and her children in the slums of Old Delhi, a portraiture of them with the backdrop being the indigo external wall of their home.

Story

The homes of the slums of Delhi, as well as other parts of India, are mostly painted a unique blue, a colour synonymous with the Brahmins, higher caste members of the priestly class. The painting of the homes in indigo has been followed by the majority of the lower caste people, chasing an illusionary dream of their inner want in attaining a certain higher status in India. The bipolar distance between the rich and poor remains vast, with the majority finding themselves below the poverty line. This series depicts a single mother and her children in the slums of Old Delhi, a portraiture of them with the backdrop being the indigo external wall of their home. It is an indication of what capitalism, if not carried out efficiently, does to societies at large, distancing the very rich and the very poor, an imbalance of humanity.

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