All images © 1975-2025 Marc Delforge

I spent more than five years in this country, the eternal one, the one of the sanatana dharma, trying to understand what no other philosophy was telling us – about ourselves and the world (are they two sides of the same coin?). I had a mystical experience there (detailed in my book “L’Autre Rive de nulle part” published by Editions Dricot in 2000), which may explain why I was fascinated by the country and have returned so many times. Of all the countries I’ve visited, India is the one I’ve most liked (for its culture), the two others being Turkey (for its people) and New Zealand (for its nature, admittedly quite damaged in the space of a few centuries but still incomparable).

Like everywhere else, I’ve been taking photos ever since my father offered me a camera on my twentieth birthday. In India, this started in 1978 and ended in 2005. I’m still in the process of digitizing them. It’s one of the last portfolios still under construction (as far as countries I won’t be returning to are concerned), which, in a way, is normal, since it’s certainly the country from which it takes the longest to return.

1981 in North India :

1983 in North and South India :

1985 in North India :

1986 in Eastern India :

1987 in South India :

1990 in South India :

From 1990 to 2015 (archiving work still in progress) :