Last week I was in New Delhi on assignment with BusinessWeek Magazine working with one of my most favorite editors Sarah Greenberg Morse. I’d been hoping to get to New Delhi for awhile now. I’d wanted to see some friends up there and get a dose of cold weather considering its the holiday season and its still 90 freaking degrees and humid in Mumbai. Delhi is cold well, at least colder and that my friends is a welcome change.

My regular assistant was out of town helping Laura El-Tantaway navigate a story in eastern Maharashtra, off she went borrowing my RZ and a bunch of film, so I hired Janikka as my first assistant and flew to Delhi to photograph an inventor of sorts. The portrait went like clock work and we decided to switch our flights and stay in New Delhi for the weekend.

Dan Pepper graciously offered up his room to J and I so we packed our bags and headed over to his apartment in one of my favorite parts of New Delhi, Jangpura Extension…. right near the amazing and wonderful HAWKERS HOUSE! I just love their cold coffee and grilled ham and cheese sammys! J and I haven’t seen Dan in ages and we’d been talking about working on a project together for a medical NGO he volunteers for called the Ila Trust perfect timing all around.

This past year has been super busy and my neck/back injury has really slowed me down the last few months. I haven’t had time to work on personal projects or to volunteer as much as I would like to. Being in the right place at the right time last week allowed me to fit in at least one small day of volunteering for an organization that really is doing a great service to the poor residents of New Delhi providing medical services on location to the people who really can’t afford it otherwise. Dan, who will be a doctor at some point in the next 10 years has been volunteering with Ila taking medical histories and doing pre examinations for the last few months. We went with the mobile medical unit on a cold Saturday morning at dawn. Three doctors and a pharmacist treated about 200 people on the side of a busy highway. While I didn’t do much, I’m hoping that the pictures I made for them will help a little bit. I’ll be going back to Delhi the next chance I get and photographing more.

As you know, TIS THE SEASON! So if you’d like to donate to Ila please send cash money via Paypal to me and I’ll get it to Dan. Shoot me an email and I’ll give you my Paypal address. Most of the people being served by Ila earn less than 100 dollars a month so as you can imagine… every little bit helps. 5 bucks to 100k. Send it over people.


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