Coastal Carolina Life published an article I wrote and photographed about south Kerala, India. View the PDF: SouthKerala
There is actually a funny story behind this article. Last December (2011) I went to India for a month with a friend. I was not on assignment, but of course I couldn’t resist taking pictures. It was a challenge to carry all my clothes and my camera gear in a back pack for a month.
Most of the trip was in south Kerala with its beautiful beaches, ayuvedic centers, rich cultural events, such as Kathikali, the ancient dance drama, and Indian classical dance and martial arts. Other highlights were a visit to an ashram, an overnight birthday trip on a converted rice barge, and a sojourn in the home of a Keralite family. I also enjoyed many visits to an amazing diversity of religious sites–Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Jain.
It was a journey of stunning landscapes, lovely people, exotic food, and rich cultural displays.
This summer, while driving across the US midwest, I received an email from Carolyn Males, the new editor of Coastal Carolina Living, asking if I could supply an article about India, complete with photos. So it was that I found myself madly typing on my laptop about moist tropical Kerala as my friend drove thousands of miles across the parched US midwest.
I found it enormous fun to once again write and illustrate as I had many years ago. So far I’ve received the most comments about the Ayuvedic foot massage.