The flower market of calcutta (flower market)in India open 24/24 is the best place in the city and surely the state of West Bengal to buy or sell flowers wholesale. It is at the foot of the famous Howrah Bridge and on the banks of the Hooghly. This is my fourth visit of recent years in this big colorful market.
What I discovered during this visit are the ghats next door as the Mullick Ghat Flower market or train sand wrestlers. Unfortunately my early departure from Calcutta did not allow me to see them during their training.
As in all markets, particularly in India, there is a certain excitement. If you do not clear narrow aisles a few dozens of centimeters quickly enough, you risk being hustled by rushed bearers. But when
Going on the Ghats at fifty meters, the contrast is striking and the agitation gives way to the tranquility of the water’s edge. It is in a corner of these ghats a little apart that I discovered a man sitting with his head and hands folded on the knees and I could not see the face.
So this is the only portrait of this series that is, paradoxically, “faceless” but for me it is certainly the most eloquent.
Through his posture and his hands a kind of fragility, despair and sadness emerge. A solitude amplified by the proximity and the contrast of the crowd.
The poor of the flower market.
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