Beach kids, Goa, India. December 1989
On my first trip to India my friends and I spent Christmas and New Year on the beach in Goa. Our house was just behind the edge of the palms lining the beach. Every time I went out to photograph the fishermen every morning the same kids would come up and follow us and are clearly living on the beach in little huts with their families. This young girl was always looking after her younger sister and carried her as naturally as if she was her mother. They followed me everywhere and one day they happen to just hang out at this boat where I was able to shoot a portrait of them in an impromptu moment and staged an unrehearsed.
