Confidence is Sexy

Rabari woman smiles into the camera with confidence

Rabari Woman

Gujarat, India 2003

They traveled in the cab of a goods hauling truck. They’d stopped on the side of the road and so had we. I don’t remember why we stopped, but in no time I was pointing my camera at this little family.

This very confident-seeming woman took it as natural that I would want to photograph her. She leaned forward confidently if not intimidatingly. What was she saying with that penetrating gaze?

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