Trucking in India: adding colour to Indian transport
Updated On Feb 03, 2014 06:59 PM IST
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Decorated with colourful trinkets, transporting goods of all sizes and often having men sitting precariously atop them, legs dangling out of the vehicle, trucking in India is often a misunderstood. Four international photographers covered 27 Indian states in the heavy vehicles to understand them and their drivers, compiled as a coffee table book by Divya Jain. Seen here is the interiors of a truck with its driver. Click to see more images from the book. Text by Shweta Mehta
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Divya Jain, whose maiden coffee table book is dedicated to trucks and their drivers, says, "People who drive trucks have a lot of negative publicity around them and they don’t get their due. I wanted to bring out their positive aspects." Incidentally, Jain hails from a family of truckers — they own a logistics company. Seen here is a truck being ferried to land on a boat.
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Over the four years, Jain commissioned four international photographers — Sephi Bergerson, Zackary Canepari, Thomas Pickard and Claude Barutel — to travel across 27 states in trucks, bonding with their drivers and capturing their journeys. Why foreigners? Because they bring a fresh perspective, says Jain. Snapshot: a truck covered in snow
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