Mary Ellen Mark Hippopotamus and Performer, Great Rayman Circus. Madras, India. 1989.
"Photographing the Indian circus was one of the most beautiful, joyous, and special times of my career. I was allowed to docum
(...) ent a magic fantasy that was, at the same time, all so real. It was full of ironies, often humorous and sometimes sad, beautiful and ugly, loving and at times cruel, but always human. The Indian circus is a metaphor for everything that has always fascinated me visually."
- Mary Ellen Mark, excerpt from Indian Circus (1993)
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