Photograph by Patrick Cariou. Romania

Gypsies by Patrick Cariou (powerHouse Books) retraces in reverse the migration of the Rom people (the Gypsies' own term for themselves) from Western to Eastern Europe, through the Middle East, and ultimately to India, the home of their ancestors. The original journey was an epic, thousand-year odyssey and Cariou labored more than a decade to travel it.

Cariou comes to the end of his travels spent documenting a sparse landscape of itinerant clans living in a world apart for hundreds of years, from citizen to gangster, from the flashy prosperity of the Mercedes-driving Manouches of France to the abject poverty of the Roma of Slovakia.

The result is a stunning and thought-provoking collection of portraits and landscapes that demonstrate the wide variety of conditions in which the Gypsies of the world find themselves. These people, scattered far and wide, are a family, bound together by centuries of history and generations of survival. View the exhibit.

Photograph by Suvra Das. Untitled

"According to Wikipedia, the police are described as persons empowered to enforce the law, protect property and reduce civil disorder. Who are the police? What do they do? How do they serve the nation, and how do they interact with people? What do they do in a critical situation? How do they act? These were several questions going on in my mind. I tried to get the answer." View the exhibit.