India, for me, is a case of love at first sight. It’s been already 30 years now, but I can still remember very well, when I’ve crossed their border for the first time, after a long journey by land crossing Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Of course, all these countries, especially Afghanistan, I provided fantastic experience, but India, with its colors, joy and freedom presented an irresistible contrast to aridity I was experiencing up there. Its cultural diversity, the purity and warmth of its people reinforced this first impression. So much that while I was leaving I was already thinking about returning.

Less than a year after I went back, and a project developed with the friend, and photographer, Kim Morarji, led us to run more than 10,000 km in a Land Rover by the country's interior. Needless to say how this partnership was important for the job. Kim gave me a much more deep and direct interaction with his compatriots, and a real immersion in the culture and soul of his country. Not to tell the many places that I knew thanks to his knowledge of the country map, and especially of what is not on India’s map.

I’d still return other times and register so many other moments, but this collection aims to show only images in B&W film of the period between 1977 and 1979. I would also like to remind you that our intention is to periodically update this set of images, publishing more and more pieces of my Indian files regarding this period.

For any humanist photographer, India is a great field laboratory, for me, more than that it is the great movie of humanity.