Travelling in India

"This album is a photographic gesture. It is in the spirit of those intrepid British travel writers like Lady Stanhope whoused words and a sketchbook to record their impressions. I don't think you can ever capture or explain India, but duringmy three weeks exploring a fraction of this multifarious, miraculous country I discovered a world as vivid and refined,as complicated and intensely coloured as an eighteenth-century Mughal miniature. Here was the shifting animation oflife itself, the celebration of humanity and the longing of the soul for the divine in every small act of kindness. Every dayis a festival, every day is a death." Amanda HarlechTravelling in India is Amanda Harlech's photographic record of her travels from Delhi to Mumbai. This is not documentaryphotography, but rather an elegant suite of confessional impressions - of people, landscapes, markets, temples, coloursand textures. The book gives shape to aesthetic and emotional responses that resist definition, and suggests in Harlech'swords, " the vibrancy and improvised genius of India, alive with prescience, disquiet, grace and yearning".Writer and stylist Amanda Harlech was born in 1959 in London. After studying English literature at the University of Oxford,Harlech became a fashion editor at Harpers & Queen. She subsequently worked with John Galliano for twelve yearsand today is a consultant for Karl Lagerfeld.