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On The Beach in Puri

We arrived in the ancient city of Puri after a 9 hour train ride from Kolkata. The beach was teeming with life — people bathing in the ocean, selling food, souvenirs, offering horseback and camel rides.

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“The beautiful and barren Sundar Nursery may not have many visitors on a scorching May afternoon, but it had many workers toiling away in the heat and for long hours in the complex site. Many of the workers were women who had migrated in search of a livelihood, leaving behind homes in other states and traveling long distances. While, walking around I noticed one of the children who I had photographed earlier in the day, was showing-off the photo to his mother who was busy working on a gardening-landscape project. I stopped to talk to the mother who despite being busy, made time to smile back and talk to me.I found out that we both belonged to the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, and started speaking in Bangla which is the language of the place from where we have both migrated. However, apart from migration our realities could not be more different from each others.These young uneducated mothers live in poverty, work in the scorching summer heat, have no time for themselves, and struggle to raise their children. The work they do in the beautiful and barren complex, is probably just enough for a subsistence living, but not enough to send their children to school. Yet like most mothers across the world, they take pride and joy in their children. After seeing the photos, many of the mothers came to me and requested to be photographed with their children.” - Nandini Mazumder @nandini_1720 Nandini gave away photos with a film and camera donation from GivePhotos #myinstax #fujifilm #polaroid #india #streetphotography #poverty #delhi #givephotos

“These kids (José David, Thierry and Ronaldinho) were playing checkers with their own made board very focused. Although it is a very well-known game we asked them if they could show us how to play. Thierry, the kid with the orange T-shirt, started moving the tokens and in less than five minutes he had won the game. Besides good checkers players they were soccer fans as you can see by their T-shirts and their names.” - Gabriela Huarie and Marcial Rodriguez. Gabriela and Marcial traveled to San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia with a camera and film donated by GivePhotos. You can follow them @siemprehaciaeloeste #myinstax #fujifilm #polaroid #givephotos #streetphotography #colombia #bogota

San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia was founded by people who escaped the slave trade during the XVI century. The town has its own language (“palenquero”) and its own organization and culture. Gabriela Huarie and Marcial Rodriguez found this group of kids jumping rope. “We asked them if we could take a picture and give it to them but they started to shout: No! No photo! No photo! We explained again that we wanted to give them the picture as a gift but they were obstinate and did not want any photos. We respected their decision but when I took a picture of another kid who was selling candies nearby and they saw that he was able to keep the picture they came running and started posing! We had a wonderful time with them and laughed a lot.” You can follow Marcial on Instagram @siemprehaciaeloeste #myinstax #fujifilm #colombia #givephotos #streetphotography #poverty #children #polaroid

Greg Boles gave a photo to this new mother on his trip through India. He writes, “I gave photos to a woman who gave birth in a tent village the day prior, on a sand floor, no doctor, no drugs, no midwife. I found her the next morning, dressed in a beautiful purple dress and just having completed nursing her one day old baby boy. She was so happy I could document the birth.” Read more about Greg’s @street__images experiences on our website www.givephotos.org

"June is in her early 20s and works as a security guard at a small, local hotel in Eldoret, Kenya. In the background you can see the ‘guard shack’ where June sits during her shift from 7am to 7pm. She is responsible for allowing guests’ access to the premises and checks their vehicles as part of the security process. She also helps guests carry their things to their rooms and monitors the hotel grounds. June’s home is in a rural area about an hour away - so during the week, she rents a room nearby, where she stays until she goes home on the weekends to visit her family. June became my ‘friend’ as I stayed at this hotel - she greeted me with a big smile me each time I arrived and left and requested not only a photo of herself, but one of the two of us together, so that she could hang the photos in the guard shack. June doesn’t have a smartphone nor access to a camera so it is rare for her to see an image of herself. After we took the photo, June excitedly showed the images to all the hotel staff, which resulted in several more photo requests! :)" - Sanna Lee @sannalee Sanna traveled to Kenya with a donation of film and camera from GivePhotos. If you'd like to be a part of the GivePhotos project please email us at givephotosproject@gmail.com #givephotos #fujifilm #myinstax #instax #polaroid #sannalee #leesisters #kenya #travel #africa

"Most of the people in these photos don’t have smartphones or mirrors in their homes, so to see an image of themselves is quite rare. Their faces lit up in delight when they saw themselves in the photographs! The area where they live is quite removed from cities and technology, with only an occasional power line visible in the distance. We drove about two hours to reach this area, where people had gathered for a church service. The man in the blue shirt is the regional pastor and holds outdoor services on a weekly basis, under a canopy of tree branches. Once the service was complete we all enjoyed a cup of ‘chai’, the traditional Kenyan tea made from fresh milk (sourced from a nearby cow or goat), sugar and Kenyan-grown tea. The attendees came dressed in their ‘Sunday best’ and watched in wonder as the images appeared on the instant film. The church service lasted about one hour and I took these photos as nightfall approached. I took so many photos I ran out of film!" - Sanna Lee GivePhotos donated film and a camera to Sanna who traveled to Kenya for her charity Lee Sisters. Follow her at @sannalee #sannalee #givephotos #kenya #riftvalley #fujifilm #myinstax #instax #polaroid #leesisters

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