It's impossible to shoot at the market, especially if you want a clean and quiet background, because there's so much going on. Photographer Ken Hermann More Quotes by Photographer Ken Hermann More Quotes From Photographer Ken Hermann (The flower sellers) woke my curiosity. But at that time, I didn't really have the time to do the project, and this idea just kind of stuck in my head for almost two years. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news Flower Man. i had a really clear idea before I went (to the market) about what I wanted to do. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news All the pictures are shot within noon and 3 p.m. when you have the sun straight from above, which gives (the portraits) this very hard light, and then I just used some studio light as a fill to make it a little bit more soft. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news All the other sellers -- they are so busy, so just convincing them to go near the river to get their portrait done and spend maybe 15 minutes of their time was a challenge, because every minute they're not standing in the flower (market), they lose money. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news Some of the flowers, (the sellers) didn't allow us to take pictures of because they're flowers used for offering in the temple, it was more a problem about the flowers than actually the guy behind, because they didn't want us to take the pictures because (the flowers would) lose their purity. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news If you want to take pictures in India, people tend to just stand up and look proud and strong, it's very different from the Western world because if you take pictures here, people tend to smile. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news They use these flowers in temples and all over India, so that's one of the more common flowers at the market, i really like that picture because they carry the flowers like it is a dress. You should see when they walk through the flower market, it's almost like (the flowers are) all alive. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news These are a special kind of leaves, and many of (the sellers) carry them on their head and (on their) arms, and when they walk around, it's almost like a human bush or something like that. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news I enjoyed this project, there's a lot of photographers going to India and then showing a poor, bad situation. ... I have a totally different approach. I want to show some more proudness and find the beauty of people. Photographer Ken Hermann top-news