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Portfolio - Sweet Life, Chapter 2- Look It’s Getting Sunny Outside!!! 

Sohrab Hura 

Over the years when my mother’s condition started to improve I started to photograph at home more. Apart from my mother the focus of the photographs also included her dog Elsa who had been her sole companion at home for many years and also the house itself whose condition deteriorated or improved as my mother’s illness regressed or progressed. Her relationship with Elsa which had substituted intimate human contact as simple as touch or conversation all these years, had played a big part in my mother’s improvement. In the late winter of 2014 Elsa died having grown old in her 13th year. That winter... 

Sohrab Hura 2013

INDIA. 2013. Tree outside the house. 

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INDIA. 2012. 

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INDIA. 2008. One of the rooms in the house. 

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INDIA. 2010/11. Elsa waiting to play with someone. 

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INDIA. 2013. Ma and Elsa. 

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INDIA. 2009. Ma and Elsa. 

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INDIA. 2010/2011. Mum trying to get Elsa off the bed so that... 

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INDIA. 2009. Ma and Elsa fighting over something. 

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INDIA. 2010. Elsa hiding under the sheet so that she can lick... 

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INDIA. 2010. Elsa staring at mum eating in hope to get a bite... 

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INDIA. 2012/13. Mum, daily medication. 

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INDIA. 2012/2013. Mum drowsy because of the medication. 

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INDIA. 2013. Streetlight outside the house. 

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INDIA. 2012. Mum at the gate to see me off. 

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INDIA. 2012/13. Mum’s garden. 

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INDIA. 2010. Elsa wandering around the house at night. 

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INDIA. 2011. Mum watching television before sleeping. 

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INDIA. 2012. Night. 

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INDIA. 2009. Elsa sticking to mum and sleeping. 

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INDIA. 2014. Night. 

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INDIA. 2013/14. Dad started to drop by everyday to share a drink... 

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INDIA. 2013. Mum, smoke. 

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INDIA. 2011. After shaving my beard. 

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INDIA. 2012. Mum slipped and fell on the floor; not the first... 

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INDIA. 2012. Mum slipped and broke her leg. 

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INDIA. 2011/12. Elsa watching over an injured bird. 

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INDIA. 2011. Mum making a photo of Elsa and me. 

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INDIA. 2011. Photo of Elsa and me by mum. 

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INDIA. 2013. Ma looking for Elsa’s ball. 

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INDIA. 2008. 

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INDIA. 2009. Ma and Elsa fighting over a pillow. 

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INDIA. 2013/14. 

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INDIA. 2010. Neighbourhood cat. 

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INDIA. 2012/13.

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INDIA. 2013/14. Dad used to be sort of a Casanova when he was... 

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INDIA. 2014. Ma, pa’s hand. 

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INDIA. 2012. Rag left hanging outside the house. 

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INDIA. 2013. Street dogs. Heat season after the monsoon months.... 

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INDIA. 2013. Pup’s born outside the house. 

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INDIA. 2014. Mum and Elsa taking care of an injured pup. 

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INDIA. 2014. But most of the pups were run over by cars in the... 

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INDIA. 2012. Bougainvillea leaves and flowers on the ground. 

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INDIA. 2014. 

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INDIA. 2013/14. Mum and Dad sharing a smoke. 

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INDIA. 2012. The wall peeling away again. 

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INDIA. 2012. Elsa losing muscle mass and weight with age. 

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Sohrab Hura 2014

INDIA. 2014. The season’s first blossom. 

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INDIA. 2014. Elsa bleeding from a tumour on her abdomen. 

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INDIA. 2014. Elsa not able to move. 
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