"Neither a woman nor a man, holy and profane, one who serves God, who bathes in stones, who weeps in spring - the hijra. It has been 17 years since I was following their lives with a camera in hand. In the midst of numerous photographs and plain texts, the third sex living in India, the land of chaos, forms a real picture."
Born in 1950, Takeshi Isikawa is a photographer. After graduating from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1972, he studied with Eugene Smith and traveled to the United States.. He became a freelancer in 1975 and has since covered the Silk Road, India, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and other Asian countries, as well as South America.
