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	2017/010/1
	A selection of monochrome panoramic images made by the photographer Noel Chanan on a succession of road trips through India during 1994 to 1999. The majority of these images formed part of the inaugural exhibition at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum on its opening in 2000. The images were shot on a Russian Horizon 202 camera with clockwork-driven rotating lens, on Ilford film stock, subsequently printed as silver prints with selenium toning.
	1994-1999
	India
	61 prints
	Open
	None
	Series

Ram Krishna Bose, classical music teacher, Udaipur Women selling pottery in Delhi Street cricket, Agra, Rajasthan Herdsmen at a cattle fair, Ranthambore, Rajasthan Desert tribal settlement near Khimsar, Rajasthan Cricket bat maker, Udaipur, Rajasthan Cricket on the seafront, Chennai A corner of the marketplace, Jodphur, Rajasthan Motor-rickshaw drivers, Jodphur, Rajasthan The Sharma family, Samode, Rajasthan Boy with bicycle, Samode, Rajasthan Street food vendor, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala K M Alex Esq. MA, BSc, retired engineer with grandsons, Rose Villa, Ponga, Kerala Fishermen hauling in net, Kovalam, Kerala Fishwives, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu Backwaters boatman, near Alappuzha, Kerala Traditional boatbuilding, Veraval, Gujarat Wholesale fruit market, Ganges Delta Village school, Orissa (Odisha) Making images of Saraswati, Calcutta (Kolkata) Making images of Saraswati, Calcutta (Kolkata) Village street, Orissa (Odisha) Wedding band, Puri, Orissa (Odisha) Palaquin carriers, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu Temple elephant, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu Pontoon bridge across the Ganges, Benares (Varanasi) Boatload of pilgrims, Benares (Varanasi) Traffic jam, Benares (Varanasi) Temple beggars, Benares, (Varanasi) Street scene with man in foreground, Benares (Varanasi) Street scene, Benares (Varanasi) Canalside slum dwellings, Bombay (Mumbai) Open air laundry, Bombay (Mumbai) Penitent standing on a bed of nails, Mysore (Mysuru) Boy with monkey, Bombay (Mumbai) Indigent woman, Kerala/Tamil Nadu border Women washing in river, Deccan Plateau, Karnataka Commuters coming from the pontoon bridge, Benares (Varanasi) Scrapyard with diver's suit, Alang Beach, Gujarat Steel claws at the shipbreakers' yard, Alang Beach, Gujarat Tongshun' at the shipbreakers' yard, Alang Beach, Gujarat Remains of a container ship, shipbreakers' yard, Alang Beach, Gujarat The Maharana & Maharani Mahipendra Singh of Danta Lake temple in the evening light, Dungarpur, Rajasthan Camels at a travelling circus, Bhavnagar, Gujarat The White Bullock, Deccan Plateau, Karnataka Making cane joggli, Deccan Plateau, Karnataka Indigent tribal children, Balaram, Gujarat Village street with laughing woman, Badami, Karnataka Granite rocks and cacti, Deccan Plateau, Karnataka Itinerant goatherds on the road to Artuna, Rajasthan Oxen grinding sugar cane, Deo Domnath, Rajasthan View from the summit, Mount Abu, Rajasthan Hindu temple, Deo Somnath, Rajasthan Ruined temple, Vijayanagara, Karnataka Rocks with graffiti, Vijayanagara, Karnataka Wishing rocks, Vijayanagara, Karnataka Votive offerings on sacred ground, Salera Village, Gujarat Open air laundry, Bombay (Mumbai) Fishing boat crew, Veraval, Gujarat Street food vendors, Agra