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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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