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Cooking Noodles

In his work, cooking noodles, he was happy. He had been smelling the hot oil and fire since he was a boy. Another home for most of his life: a ledge, a small, open stall, his pan and paddles, the fire. Piles of noodles grew. This was good and he would have enough to buy tomorrow’s supplies. Throughout Jaipur, everyone knew that he was the best noodle-cooker in all of India. However, after the street traffic, the tourists and the lot, he hoped that there would be enough noodles to take home to his family, for they depended on him for their nightly meal. Jaipur, India.

Ellen Fisch

Ellen Fisch was born and raised in Brooklyn, NYC. At a young age, Fisch began to use observations of her surroundings combined with her imaginative curiosity to create new and wonderful worlds. This all began when Fisch, aged 4, looked through an elaborate brass vent into her backyard and imagined that she had discovered a secret garden. Throughout years of studying photography, drawing, architecture and painting, Fisch learned to seamlessly blend the interdisciplinary arts into her photography. Later, as a professional photographer, artist and architectural draftsman, Fisch honed her skills in the vital mastery of sharing her distinctive visions with others.