Tikapur Artwork Smoke Sesh, 1950

Picasso like Figures, Bordered by Sacred Serpents, Adorn a Tharu Mud Wall in Tikapur These shy people, who ran at first sight of the photographer, invited him into their home after he let them look through his camera’s view finder. Read More …

Yale Smoking Contest, 1959

‘Smoking Contest’ held at Yale University in 1959       Honorable mention to the guy in the middle who showed up with the homemade glass jug hookah!      

Dervishes in the Garden, 1870

‘Dervishes in the Garden’ smoking pipes and playing music photographed by Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov in Tehran, Iran ( Persia )   1870’s    

Waterpipe Craftsman, 1944

‘Craftsman works on water pipe’ near Nakhoda Mosque, Kolkata, India 1944    

Partition of India, 1947

Muslim man walks during the Partition of India carrying his water pipe in one hand while balancing a pole holding his 5 year Old son & all their possessions he could carry in a convoy to West Punjab.  Pakistan  August Read More …

The Water-Pipe Bearer, 1890

‘The Maharaja of Orcha, Sir Pratrap Singh with water-pipe bearer’.  India, 1890    

Lucknow Lounging, 1872

Lucknow Lounging:  A reclining woman with hookah in Lucknow, India 1872