In India
In India is a selection of pictures made while Epstein was living and working in India between 1978 and 1989. “It’s impossible to encapsulate my experience in a sentence or two,” he writes, “but I can say that my life there gave me a humility I hadn’t learned as a white middle-class man born in postwar America.” During the enforced stillness of the pandemic, Epstein revisited his contact sheets to make this expansive, personal reading of his Indian work. Two thirds of these photographs have never been shown or published.