Pradip Malde | photographs

Ville De Dieu

7th

Dec. × ’11

By Pradip Malde

Jean Saint Louis, Fisherman at Ville de Dieu, with his son.
Port Au Prince, Haiti. December 18, 2010

I am about to leave for PAP, and hope to see Jean Saint Louis once again, almost a year later to the day. His relaxed attitude belies the tension we were all feeling after hearing gunshots a couple of blocks away. As we headed out of the neighborhood, guided by Jean, we drove past a deserted street – its sole occupant a dead body, in a white shirt, dark pants and feet pointing our way. A gang killing. Like the sewage laden tidal back-flows on which much of the ‘ville’ teeters, darkness flows in, and then, after a momentary silence, back out.

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I Photograph To Remember

6th

Dec. × ’11

By Pradip Malde

pedro meyer

Pedro Meyer’s touching and elegiac remembrance of his parents has been reissued in various digital versions, twenty years after its initial publication as a CD-ROM. “I Photograph To Remember” reminds me of John Berger’s precious collection of essays in ‘Hold Everything Dear’, where, in talking about his friend Juan Muñoz and poet Nazim Hikmet, he writes:

…finishing with: “A reel of scotch tape stirred by a draught from a window is sometimes enough to move mountains.”

Mr. Pedro Meyer, thank you for your reel of scotch tape and draught, all lovingly laid out in one swirl. And as always, thank you Mr. Berge for always reminding us of the magical brevity of photos.

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Gravity.

5th

Dec. × ’11

By Pradip Malde

Kiran. Luca. Gravity.
St. George Island, FL. November, 2011

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Bandits

4th

Dec. × ’11

By Pradip Malde

Kiran. Bandit. Luca.
Old Farm Road, Sewanee, TN. December, 2011

We were getting ready for a friend’s birthday party on Sunday morning. For a few moments, I felt that I was witness to an entire script for a spaghetti western. And honestly, all I was in the midst of doing was testing out a new flash unit on my M9. Shot with a Summilux 35mm, available light and fill-in flash. [I know - I haven't gone into technical details before, leave alone indulge in anecdotes, but I think I'll begin doing so from this point on... sporadically.]