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A woman looking into the Mumbai night. Beside her we see women from a variety of Indian cultures, all of whom sit in the ladies\u2019 compartment of this local train<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

As a child, photojournalist Tamina-Florentine Zuch would spend days wandering around the farm she grew up on, filming everything while commentating and documenting what was happening. These days, she holds a camera rather than a video recorder, but her aim is much the same, albeit on a larger scale and with more exotic\u00a0locations. \u2018Although early on I was more interested in filming, my focus shifted to photography after I graduated from high school,\u2019 says Tamina-Florentine.<\/p>\n

\u2018Photojournalism and documentary photography are, for me, the keys to everything I want to do: travel, meet people, experience all the different worlds out there.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

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Selling food on the suburban train in Kolkata<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Tamina-Florentine has certainly embraced that aim wholeheartedly. At just 25 years old, she has a diverse portfolio that reaches far beyond her home country of Germany. And that early experience has paid off \u2013 this year she took home t15,000 worth of Zeiss lenses after winning the Zeiss Photography Award, an international photography contest launched in collaboration with the World Photography Organisation.<\/p>\n

The project that won her the prestigious accolade takes in the frenetic world of the Indian railway network. Over a period of several weeks, Tamina-Florentine set out to document the chaos and commotion found within the vast Indian rail network.<\/p>\n

She took the prize-winning photographs during an exchange programme at the National Institute of Design in India while she was completing her fourth year of study at the University of Hanover. Staying in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat in western India, from November 2014 to March 2015, Tamina-Florentine wanted to immerse herself in the cultural aspects of a new country, and find a big photographic project to work on. She decided to combine the two and travel around India by train.<\/p>\n

\u2018India has one of the largest and most widespread rail systems in the world,\u2019 she explains. \u2018Almost every corner of this massive country can be reached by train. As the distances are so far and the trains move so slowly, you can spend hours, sometimes days on one train journey. My idea was to get an insight into the life of the travellers.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

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Swathes of men attempt to board an already crammed local train in Mumbai<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Planning the journey<\/h2>\n

A potential issue Tamina-Florentine faced was attending her course at the University in Gandhinagar, so she could not just pack up and disappear for a few months. Instead, she meticulously planned a series of trips that brought her back to her home base each time. It was a more disjointed approach, but just as productive, she says.<\/p>\n

\u2018Most train journeys took one to two days,\u2019 she explains. \u2018The longest I travelled without pausing was the train from Kolkata to Kanyakumari. I got on the train at 4am; I spent two nights on the train and arrived in Kanyakumari three days later at 11pm. It was really exhausting, though, especially because I had to share my bed with at least two other people and I was alert almost all the time to not miss a moment. I found the best length of travel time to get close to people and be able to concentrate full time were train journeys that took two days and one night.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

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Young women with their children in the ladies\u2019 compartment of a local train. The child sleeps in a makeshift hammock<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Apart from local journeys between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, Tamina-Florentine\u2019s project can be split into three sections, comprising three expeditions away from her home base. The first was a train north to Shimla.<\/p>\n

\u2018This place was high up in the mountains, in the foothills of the Himalayas. From there I travelled through the valley of the Ganges river to Varanasi,\u2019 she says.<\/p>\n

The second trip was from Kolkata in the east to Kanyakumari, the southernmost point of India.<\/p>\n

\u2018One could say that the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean meet here,\u2019 says Tamina-Florentine. \u2018After spending a day resting at this magical place, I headed back north, travelling along the west coast to Mumbai.\u2019 The third trip took her to the interior of India, to Hyderabad and Hampi.<\/p>\n\t\t

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A woman herds goats through the desert landscape in India<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Personal moments<\/h2>\n

Anyone who has viewed documentaries on India will be well aware of the claustrophobic environment of Indian trains, which are packed full of passengers, some of whom opt to travel on the roofs of carriages. Tamina-Florentine says having to operate in these confines \u2013 manoeuvring through tight spaces \u2013 was to the benefit rather than the detriment of her photos.<\/p>\n

\u2018Spending so much time in such a confined space with almost no privacy meant it was possible [for me] to get really close to the people,\u2019 she explains. The key to getting good photographs in this situation was to build relationships with fellow passengers, but being an outsider was also of use.<\/p>\n

\u2018As soon as I entered a compartment, the people would stare at me anyway: I am tall, blonde and pale. Although I wore appropriate clothing and covered my hair, I was never able to blend in with the crowd. So they saw me and then they saw my camera. Most of the time I started talking with the passengers first and took my seat. As soon as the atmosphere settled, I started photographing. Either people would tell me that it was fine with them if I took their photo, or I would look at them holding up my camera and wait until they would nod or smile. I hardly had any problems with people not wanting to be photographed.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

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A young man leans out of a moving train while his friend takes a picture<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Tamina-Florentine did not always ask first, though: sometimes a moment demanded retrospective permission. \u2018I carried my camera openly with me all the time,\u2019 she says. \u2018Most of the time I used a Nikon D800 with a 35mm lens.<\/p>\n

If I ran into a situation that seemed perfect, I wouldn\u2019t ask for permission first as that would have destroyed the moment. But I would tell them later that I took a picture. I guess all photographers have to find their own way of dealing with that. It depends on the topic, too. But for me and this particular story \u2013 being in a foreign country, capturing moments of privacy \u2013 it was important that the people didn\u2019t feel\u00a0offended.\u2019<\/p>\n

That desire to get the true personal moment, unaffected by the lens of the camera, determined how Tamina-Florentine composed and lit her\u00a0pictures.<\/p>\n

\u2018I never used flash,\u2019 she reveals. \u2018I used what available light there was, be it sunlight or the light coming from the electric lights on board the trains. For me, it is all about light, atmosphere and composition.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tamina-Florentine stipulates that good lighting was an incredibly important factor when it came to composing her images. \u2018The best light was to be found early in the mornings and shortly before sunset, when the sunlight would flood through the window and fill the compartments with this beautiful dusty light,\u2019 she says.<\/p>\n\t\t

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A young man gazes out at the warm light of sunset<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Composing the shots<\/h2>\n

When it came to composing her images, Tamina-Florentine would focus on a situation that would reflect a particular mood or feeling. Often she would look for multiple situations occurring within a single frame to emphasise these emotive\u00a0moments. \u2018I would try to unite more than one of these situations in one shot,\u2019 she says. \u2018For example, the photograph I took of a man praying in the morning sun, while a family sat together cuddled up in blankets against the morning cold, conveys this well.\u2019<\/p>\n\t\t

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Two women and a child wrapped up against the morning cold, while behind them a man offers a prayer to the sun<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Many of her images have the spontaneity that suggest an easy job for the photographer \u2013 that the trains are full of life that she just had to sit back and record it. However, this was not the case at all. \u2018Sometimes I had to wait hours or even days for one picture,\u2019 reveals Tamina-Florentine.<\/p>\n

\u2018[It was] also important for me not to have too much presence in the picture as a photographer. I stuck to the people for a long time until they got used to me and my camera. After a while, they ignored me and that was the time when I could start to work.\u2019<\/p>\n

This determination and patience to get the right shot will be key in Tamina-Florentine\u2019s next project. She has decided to cover the huge \u2013 and currently very relevant \u2013 topic of migrant workers. But rather than the workers themselves she will focus on the families they have left behind and the situations that have led these workers to leave their home country.<\/p>\n

It will require extensive travel and be incredibly demanding personally, but having already travelled 20,000km [12,427 miles] along the railways of India, she is no doubt ready to undertake such a\u00a0challenge.<\/p>\n\t\t

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An evening shot of a local train in Mumbai<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

About Tamina-Florentine Zuch<\/h2>\n

Tamina-Florentine Zuch currently lives in Hanover, Germany, and is studying photojournalism and documentary photography. You can see more of her work at www.tamina-florentine.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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