{"id":21764,"date":"2018-11-15T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?p=21764"},"modified":"2018-11-15T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:37:22","slug":"the-old-world-charm-of-indias-portrait-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?p=21764","title":{"rendered":"The old-world charm of India&#8217;s portrait studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAPC blog readers, particularly studio group members, might be interested in this photo story about India&#8217;s portrait studios on the BBC website.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Ketaki Sheth, an award-winning Indian photographer, began shooting portraits of visitors to the Jagdish Photo Studio in Manori, a coastal village in the western state of Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>She says she stumbled across it &#8211; &#8220;wedged between a hardware store and a grain depot&#8221; &#8211; by chance.\u00a0&#8220;I poked my head in and saw a bright blue stool against a diaphanous cascading red backdrop,&#8221; she told the BBC by email.\u00a0&#8220;That was it. I was hooked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, visit the BBC website at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-45745832\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-45745832<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This post was submitted by Rick Strong.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><span class='ldc-ul_cont' onclick=\"alter_ul_post_values(this,'21764','like')\" >Likes<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments\/images\/up.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>(<span>0<\/span>)<\/span><span class='ldc-ul_cont' onclick=\"alter_ul_post_values(this,'21764','dislike')\" >Dislikes<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments\/images\/down.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>(<span>0<\/span>)<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAPC blog readers, particularly studio group members, might be interested in this photo story about India&#8217;s portrait studios on the BBC website. In 2014, Ketaki Sheth, an award-winning Indian photographer, began shooting portraits of visitors to the Jagdish Photo Studio in Manori, a coastal village in the western state of Maharashtra. She says she stumbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24,71,64],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qnxV-5F2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}