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An elderly man in a large patterned turban and white shirt stands before a brick wall

India · A village in Rajasthan · 10 August 2025

Until the Fire Is Lit

One afternoon in a village south-west of Jaipur, from five o’clock until the evening fire. A miller, a tailor, an elder, a game of cricket, a herdsman and his cow, and a woman making bread over a clay stove.

Field note · 17:00

Five o’clock. The first open door was a flour mill: a grinding machine, sacks of grain, a bed against the tiled wall, the household gods above the door.

A tiled room with framed pictures of gods above a doorway, a man standing at the door — The mill, 17:00

A flour grinding machine stands in a dim room beside a bicycle — 17:02

Sacks of grain and tins stacked on a tiled floor — 17:04

The tall grinding mill with a sack at its foot — 17:04

A bed with a patterned cover against a tiled wall, a pot beside it — 17:05

Field note · 17:12

Next door, a tailor’s shop: a treadle machine, a work table, finished shirts on a rail.

A young tailor works at a treadle sewing machine while an older man stands behind him — The tailor’s shop, 17:12

Close view of hands guiding white cloth under the needle of a sewing machine — Under the needle

Finished shirts and trousers hang from a rail in a whitewashed room — Waiting to be collected

The tailor at his machine in the crowded workshop — 17:13

A small boy stands beside a bicycle in a lane, looking at the camera — A lane, 17:20

Field note · 17:28

Sixteen minutes later, an elder in a white shirt and a patterned turban stood against a brick wall for his portrait.

An elderly man in a large patterned turban stands before a brick wall — 17:28

The same man, closer, looking straight into the lens — 17:28

A boy swings a cricket bat in a dusty lane in front of a decorated gate — Cricket in the lane, 18:08

An elderly woman in a headscarf stands in a doorway, hands folded — 18:12

The same woman stands full length with a walking stick beside a whitewashed step — 18:13

Three children stand in front of a house, two of them grinning — 18:13

An old man in a turban leads a cow with long ears through a courtyard — 18:14

The man rests his hand on the cow’s neck and looks past the camera — 18:15

Two men ride a motorbike out of a narrow lane between houses — 18:21

A wide village lane with whitewashed houses and overhead wires — 18:28

Two boys sit on a step outside a doorway — 18:29

Field note · 18:34

At the end of the lane a woman knelt at a clay stove, a chulha, built against the courtyard wall. Firewood, a pan of dough, a stack of steel plates.

She made bread for sixteen minutes. I filmed it in one take.

A clay stove and firewood against a stone courtyard wall — The chulha, 18:34

A woman in a headscarf kneels at the clay stove as the fire takes — 18:34

Film · one take

Bread at the chulha One minute from a sixteen-minute single take, 18:37. No sound.

The woman cooks at the stove as the light fades — 18:50

End of the walk

A sketchbook, not yet a project

These pictures were made in a single afternoon, in August 2025. They are notes towards a longer piece of work rather than a finished story.

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