Photographs from India between 2013 und 2015
The book "Karma Driver" will be published in the beginning of 2018
93 color photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn
Publisher: Fotohof Salzburg
Design: Heine/Lenz/Zizka
Production: Richard Reisen
The life in the streets of New Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Bengalore appeared to me like a dense collage of signs, propaganda, advertising, religious symbols, people in clothes with very different styles – all together a kind of semiotic overkill, that is hard to decode at first. In all parts of the society you can see the traces of westernization and on the other side you can feel the deep routedness of the citizens in the traditional Indian culture. The disorder of urban life in Indian megacities is showing the permanent competition between the different value systems of western life style, spread by the myths of mass media and the core religious faith of Indian culture, expressed by omnipresent god idols in the cityscape.
