Photographer Trupal Pandya

The biggest (reason) was to just go out there and photograph the change before everything changes, i think if I would have (photographed the Huaorani) 10 years back down the line or a little later than that, I don't think I would have got what I just got.

Photographer Trupal Pandya

I never started photographing when I (first) saw (the Huaorani), i didn't even have my camera. I waited to let them get used to me around them. I gave myself time to get a little easier around them. Even if you cannot talk in the same language, I feel that you definitely connect to them as a human being.

Photographer Trupal Pandya

I think the question I ask myself is: 'Who's richer?' (This has been) a really big learning curve of how to just live a very beautiful, normal life.

Photographer Trupal Pandya

I think some of them saw the Polaroid for the first time, so they were really happy to see themselves like that.

Photographer Trupal Pandya

The main reason was to have the focus only on the people and their clothes and nothing else but them as an individual, them as a human being.

Photographer Trupal Pandya