Amit Madheshiya's 'The Cinema Travellers' captures the magic of travelling cinemas in rural India
Amit Madheshiya’s photographic project The Cinema Travellers began in 2008
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Amit Madheshiya’s photographic project The Cinema Travellers began in 2008. Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK
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For nearly seven decades now, travelling cinemas have been transporting the magic of movies to audiences across rural India. Travelling as part of old religious fairs, they bring the big screen magic to millions, as an annual treat. Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK
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However, with changing technologies and multiplexes, these cinemas have started to lose their patrons who prefer watching films on DVDs and mobile phones. Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK
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Madhehiya's project is an homage to a dying tradition of cinema culture, to the era when huge tents were hitched to the back of gigantic trucks and films were screened using hand-cranked projectors. Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK
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Illuminated by the projected light of the screen, Madheshiya focuses our attention on faces in the audience whose expressions of awe, delight, bewilderment and melancholy make for an unforgettable ensemble of human emotions. Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK
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Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK
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Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK
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Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK
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Photo courtesy Amit Madheshiya/GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK