Category: Portraits

By Mary Kay Seales I took this photo in a small town outside Mysore, India, in a tiny Islamic school with a few classrooms and less than a hundred, maybe less than fifty, students. I had been invited to visit because I was an English Language Specialist with the U.S. State Department. I was often… Continue reading The Gaze From the Girl in Mysore →

By Mary Kay Seales I traveled to the hill station of Ooty in southern India in 2011 while working as a teacher trainer with the U.S. State Department. Reaching Ooty required a journey through the lush hillsides of the Nilgiri Mountains. Tea plantations and wild untamed forests with elephants, monkeys and Bengali tigers, it's a… Continue reading The Man From Ooty →