Photographer Waswo X Waswo and artist Rajesh Soni talk to The Better India about A Studio in Rajasthan – a hand coloured series of black and white photographs that pay homage to traditional Indian portrait studios from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1993, Waswo X. Waswo, a photographer from the US, decided to embark on a round-the-world trip. After blowing his cash in New Zealand, he arrived in New Delhi without even a guidebook to give him directions. He says, “The only thing I knew was that I did not want to see the Taj Mahal. I wanted do something uncommon. A rickshaw-wallah captured me and took me to a travel agent who sold me a ten-day holiday in Udaipur. It was my first experience of India outside of Delhi. I loved Udaipur then and, after many years of travelling India to see the rest of the country, I love Udaipur now. It still remains my favourite place. Today it feels like home.”

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