article_snippet: Photographer Trupal Pandya traveled about 30 hours by air, water and land to reach The community and take their portraits.
article_snippet: The biggest (reason) was to just go out there and photograph the change before everything changes," Photographer Trupal Pandya said.
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article_snippet: The main reason was to have the focus only on the people and their clothes and nothing else but their as an individual, their as a human being," Photographer Trupal Pandya said.
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article_snippet: Photographer Trupal Pandya is an Indian photographer studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
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