I've been adding to my growing archive of photos of Ahmedabad wall paintings. Until recently all commercial advertisements had been hand painted onto buildings, walls, vehicles, in fact any flat surface available. This seems to be rapidly changing with commercialistion and globalisation, but there is still a legacy of this to be seen on the walls of Ahmedabad. I'm constantly drawn to these faded, richly layered, painterly surfaces. This is one of todays photos, a detail of the wall opposite the digital ceramic printers, taken while I was waiting for the first digitally printed banner to arrive. (More of this later.)
Another of a painted steel sign, which Palak tells me is advertising a womens' tailor.
and another of a rather magnificent elephant....
.... which coincides with my first sighting of an elephant, snapped very badly from the rickshaw as we flashed past.
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