Day 4:
The Jatrabari bridge across the Buriganga river.
Drove out to try locate an aea where, apparently, the local Sarees in brightly dyed colors are hung out to dry. I’ve seen these before too and the image in my minds-eye was clear. I was expecting to come across brilliant fabrics in all colors and was excited at the prospect of photographing these…. we drove and drove… but there was no sign of any such place.
Turned around, and parked below the Jatrabari bridge on the Buriganga. Sand-boats being unloaded by labourers carrying the sand in wicker baskets, long-tiled house-boats, barges, vendors carrying aluminium pots and pans on a bamboo pole, a guy selling [illegal!] deer-skin, snake-skin, tortoise shell, horns, dried intestines, dried sinews, claws and teeth -Â for medicinal purposes and as aphrodisiacs with a crowd of curious onlookers [including some small kids!]… it was fun photographing from a high vantage point looking down at the going-ons.
What delightful jumble of colors and shapes.