My first photo project, as the winner of the 1995 Dorothea Lange Fellowship.

Orissa, India, is a small state on the north eastern side of India, just south of Calcutta. I was looking for a project that would be independent and allow me to travel unfettered by expectations, time, or purpose. I wanted to see and photograph life in a place that was as different from my world as possible. Orissa was that place.