A Gypsy Girl in Dharavi, by Kristian Bertel

I photographed this Indian gypsy girl in Dharavi, Mumbai, India, while I was traveling in India. The nomadic tribes and denotified tribes consist of about 60 million people in India, out of which about five million live in the state of Maharashtra. There are 315 Nomadic Tribes and 198 Denotified Tribes.

Award Winner: Photo of the Day | January 12
Award Score: 70 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 13, Skill 13)
Photo of the Day Award Category: Portraiture Photography
Photograph Location: Dharavi, Mumbai, Maharasthra | India

Photographer: Photographer: Kristian Bertel (Aarhus, Denmark) Registered
Kristian Bertel began his photography in 2006. He is a photographer that is most widely known for his series of Indian images, which started as a long term project on India in 2008. His passion is travel photography, but he is also interested in telling stories together with his photography for instance about human aspects in India concerning life conditions of its inhabitants, poverty in the cities and in the countryside and street children in the streets.

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