“For me, home is …” That was the challenge of a local photo contest. And I thought:Home is probably where the type case hangs in which I keep the souvenirs from all over the world with which I associate stories: the vulture feather from the rewildering station in Bosnia, the silver spoon from the citadel…

This is a photo spread about one of our most intriguing tools: Hands. It always fascinated me to take a close up look at their transformative power and the interplay of softness and strength, of miscroscopic fineness and brute power. The pictures have been taken during various trips around India, they origin in West-Bengal, the…