Preston Merchant
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I am a New York-based documentary photographer at work on IndiaWorld, a project exploring the people and cultures of the global Indian diaspora.

I N D I A W O R L D
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"I find myself to be steeped in a more dense intelligibility, within which centuries and distances answer each other and speak at last with one and the same voice."

--Claude Levi-Strauss, "Tristes Tropiques"
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Guest blogging from Singapore & Malaysia on Sepia Mutiny (2008):

Singapore Days, Part I

"There are protests everywhere": Singapore Days, Part II (text by V.V. Ganeshananthan)

Malaysian Protest Theater

Photo Essay: Indians in Malaysia

Malaysia's Indian Challenger

Guest blogging from Africa on Sepia Mutiny (2007):

"They don't hire their own people; they hire Kenyans"

Kenya's Man of the Match

Kenya's Political Gadfly

Mombasa Days

One Indian's Kenyan Nationalism

Sharlene Khan: "It started off as them and ended up as me"
Zain Verjee, CNN's State Department correspondent, gives the keynote address
SAJA Convention 2008 © Preston Merchant
The South Asian Journalists Association's annual convention and job fair in New York City, June 20-21
Uma Graduates from Dartmouth
© Preston Merchant
Rupa & the April Fishes at drom in Manhattan
Rupa and the April Fishes
© Preston Merchant
Rupa & the April Fishes at drom in Manhattan
Features
Ramaswamys & Radhakrishnans Take Over the World