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January 02 2008

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A night photograph of a weathered painted roadside signboard with yellow and black frame posts, showing a painted mountain and a hand-drawn map with an arrow. The board carries Tamil text listing works and figures, with rust stains and a tree branch overhead. Beside it on the right hangs a printed portrait poster of an older bald man with white beard, but no physical people are visible in the scene.

March 03 2007

An outdoor photograph of a large blue rectangular information board mounted on two green metal posts amid dense green trees and shrubs, with boulders at the lower left. The board carries multi-line text in Tamil in white, orange and yellow lettering, with a headline in orange near the top and a phone number in the lower section. No people are visible in the scene, and the sign is the main subject against the surrounding forest foliage.

A night-time photograph of a roadside garbage heap at the base of a concrete utility pole. Plastic bags, scattered wrappers, bottles and organic refuse pile up on patchy grass and dirt. A rusted blue-and-white metal sign with Tamil text is nailed to the left pole, and a red house number '9' is painted on the pole. Dark palm trees and shrubs fill the background under a dim sky. No people are visible.

A photograph at night of a yellow street banner mounted on two metal poles above concrete walls and a blue door. The banner carries bold blue Tamil lettering and red address text. Behind it are hanging cloths and a few dark shapes, with a motorcycle partly visible at the lower right. No people are clearly visible; only a small head-like shape appears behind the wall at the lower left. The banner is a notice about an orphanage support or charity office at a street address in Rasipuram.

January 02 2008

A photograph of a school building facade in front of dense green trees. A large blue sign with white Tamil lettering reads Nalanilaipalli, with smaller Tamil text beneath, flanked by two yellow signboards with blue Tamil text, and a white flagpole stands in front. No people are visible.

Night photograph of a small roadside shrine with a corrugated metal roof and a yellow-painted golden metal grille enclosure. Inside, a deity murti sits on a raised altar, lit by a fluorescent tube, with garlands and flowers draped around it. A blue signboard reads a Tamil shrine name, and a tall stand holds a lamp outside. A dim street light glows on the right. No people are visible.

A dark, nighttime outdoor scene of an overgrown vacant plot with dense shrubs and trees, scattered litter and debris on the ground, and a bare concrete utility pole on the right. A weathered rectangular sign is mounted on the pole, displaying Tamil script in cream lettering on a dark background. No people, ritual objects or deity forms are visible.

September 17 2007

A night photograph of a large devotee procession walking along a tree-lined road, lit by street lamps. Many people wear white clothing with orange shawls draped over their shoulders, and some carry small bags or bottles. A man in a bright orange robe walks near the front, and a figure in a yellow sleeveless top stands in the foreground facing away. Roadside signboards with Tamil text stand to the right beside a tall pole. The scene reads as a Girivalam-style walk, with devotees in white and saffron-orange shawls moving together.

A photograph of a yellow painted street signboard in a rural Tamil Nadu village with blue-painted posts. The sign carries black Tamil lettering reading a village-name heading and a headline naming Periyar Nagar, with a line below naming a leader. Behind it stands a thatched-roof building with a shuttered door and a whitewashed wall, and tall palm trees are visible. A single figure in a white dhoti walks partly behind the sign's lower edge; only legs and lower clothing are visible. Faint pink and red painted marks and graffiti cover the adjacent white wall. No a person candidate is visible.