A Smile Is A Smile
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Cargo From Realm of the Muses
A Smile Is A Smile
Photo Narration
Mushtaq Bhat
Banjo Man
Banjo Man
French Quarter, New Orleans 1990
Hey Mr. Banjo Man
Take me ...
Out to the windy beach
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far from the twisted reaches
Of crazy sorrow
A SMILE & DANCE FOR FREE
A Smile & Dance for Free
A Safwa Dancer, Kyela, Tanzania 1988
And ...
If you smile at me
Think I will understand
'Cause it is something
That everybody everywhere does
In the same language
Crosby, Stills, (Young & Nash)
GRASSROOT BEATS
Dad Teaching The Kids Some Grassroot Beats
Kenya, 1986
SMILES RIGHT FROM THE BUSH
Semi-Secret (since pagan) Ancestor Ceremonial-Ritual Safwa Dancers hired by the Bunyakyusa in Rungwe, Tanzania
Itekele, Tanzania 1988 (photograph digital manipulated)
FAR OFF FROM A SMILE
Sometimes you may be far off from smiling even if you are playing and dancing for a happy crowd
A Safwa Dancer, Itekele, Tanzania 1988
A Musician at a Medieval Festival, Berlin 1992
EULENSPIEGEL
At other times however an Eulenspiegel may be able to make you smile
Medieval Festival, Berlin 1992
TIME PAST FOR SMILES?
Time Past For Smiles?
And can one feel the smile only in the community and not at the edge?
An old lady shopping in a Market.
Mexico 1990
SMILING REUNION
Smiling Reunion
Berlin & The Remnants of the Wall
Berlin 1989
PISS OFF!
Piss Off! Can't You See That I Am Pissed Off?
Sometimes Subspecies-Norms and Times may explicitly forbid smiling, especially at those from another planet...
Nevertheless ...
I could take the picture. Thanks Dude.
Actually these guys despite being in the throes of a pleasant reunion, had actually nothing to smile at. They were squatters and the Establishment was telling them to piss off! These once neglected precincts had gained on commercial value after the reunion. They had to move.
A youngster living in a camping wagon, Kreuzberg, Berlin 1990
SHARING FREEDOM WITH NO SMILES
Sharing Freedom Without Smiles
Why ain't people sharing smiles here? Or are smiles reserved for kith and kin only?
Gay Festival, Christopher Street, California. 1988
HAVING FUN SHARING SMILES
HAVING FUN SHARING SMILES
à la Crosby, Stills, Young & Nash
French Quarter Festival.
New Orleans 1990
SMILES FROM THE METROPOLIS
Smiles From The Metropolis
New York 1990
Poses & Smiles from Chicago
Friends in Chicago. 1994
(photograph digital manipulated)
SALAAM SAHIB!
Hello Sir! Take Picture!
A for-the-major-part of the day unreserved free-for-all Smile
Alu Tikki-Wallah and his Chaelas in Delhi. 1999
SMILES NO DOUBT
Itete Tansania 1988
LOCAL SMILES & RESOURCES
What? Smile?
What am I supposed to do?
Smile? Well... There you go.
A kid from a village near Thebes, Egypt 1993
Smile Implicit
Smile Implicit
Children in Bali, Indonesia 1991
NOT THAT EASY
Not that Easy.
Two Bunyakyusa Schools Kids in Tanzania 1988
SMILE? SHOULD WE? CAN WE?
SMILE?
Should We? Can We? Are We Allowed To?
Nevertheless an original, spontaneous and almost professional posing for a portrait. The kids had never seen a movie or TV.
School kids in the hilly regions of at-the-time very authoritarian and distrustful-of-visitors state of Tanzania. 1988
It may be however added that despite a rather suspicious atmosphere that my presence without official documents in the remote areas of the country inevitably aroused, I did experience an exceptional hospitality from old-time village chiefs, private persons, religious heads, a notorious underground gangster and, after being arrested on charges of being allegedly a western spy (South-African or American!), from the president of the police.
POOR YET NO SMILE
Poor Yet No Smile
Girl with Kangir (portable charcoal oven) from a village in Pampore, Kashmir 1991
SMILE PENDING
Pending Smiles from in blood drenched Jammu & Kashmir 1996-1999
THINGS TO SMILE FOR
Things To Smile For?
Wait! Let me count.
A Completely on his own free-wheeling wheelchair-less kid.
Pahar Ganj, Old Delhi 1999Rolling Stone
Things To Smile For?
Part 2
Rolling Stone
Pahar Ganj, Old Delhi 1999
All the members of this class have however one thing in common. They are already adults at the age of 7 or 9 years.
Smile!
Light Years Away from a smile
Light Years Or A Boats-Length Away From A Smile
Kids playing and living amidst a sewage dump in Manila, Philippines 1993 (digital photomontage)
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