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Night-time photo of volunteers serving food from a large steel cooking vessel beside a green truck with wooden slatted sides. A woman in a white and orange sari with a blue bird logo and a green hair net ladles food into steel bowls. Beside her, another woman in a red and gold sari and green head covering bends over the pot. A man in a pink shirt and grey trousers with a white head covering reaches in, and a man in a striped shirt and another man in white stand behind. Steam rises from the pot. Hands of others reach in at the bottom edge. This is an annadaan food distribution scene.

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Night-time photo of volunteers serving food at an annadaan relief distribution in a dark rural village setting. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and white head covering leans over a large metal pot of cooked rice, while a woman in a red blouse and patterned white garment stoops over another pot. A man in a pink shirt and a woman with a light scarf stand or sit beside a steel vessel and ladle. Several women wearing sarees and head cloths watch from the background, and a tarpaulin shelter hangs in the dark. Hair nets and white caps are worn by several volunteers.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06A night-time annadaan food distribution at a village relief camp. Volunteers in white shirts and white hair caps serve food from a large steel vessel on the back of a vehicle with metal railings. One volunteer in a white shirt ladles food into foil containers held out by a seated man in a red t-shirt with a lanyard. A woman in an orange sari with a red border stands at the bottom of the frame near the vessel, and a few villagers in colourful clothes crowd behind. The scene is lit only by available light against a dark background.2012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07 +1 copiesPhotograph of a kitchen scene in a covered area with a large metal cooking vessel at centre. Four people in white shirts and kurtas, some wearing green hairnets, gather around the pot and lift or steady it. A woman in a yellow saree and a woman in a dark-green saree stand beside it. A blurred figure in a pink-tinted sari stands at right edge, and a red-garbed person is partly visible at left. Fluorescent light and a striped cloth canopy overhead.2012-01-04January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 04 20122012-01-04Annadhan food distribution inside a covered tent with colourful fabric draping overhead. A woman in an orange sari with rudraksha mala beads and a striped headwrap serves food from a large steel pot, while a man in a red polo shirt and mint-green hairnet scoops from the same pot. Other volunteers wear mint-green and white hair coverings and orange clothing. In the foreground a woman in a black and gold sari leans over a serving table lined with plastic sheets, and hands reach toward the food. Bare electric lights hang from the tent poles.2012-01-04Night-time photo of a food distribution line at a relief camp, lit only by sparse light. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and dark trousers leans over a large steel pot, serving rice onto paper plates. To the right a woman in a white and orange sari with a floral border and a white hairnet holds stacked paper plates and watches the serving. Behind them several villagers wait along a metal railing beside a white wall, including a woman in a purple sari and a woman in blue. Stacks of foil plates sit on the pot's rim.2012-01-06January 03 20122012-01-03Night-time food distribution under a decorated tent with a patterned red and beige canopy and striped bunting. In the centre, a man in white shirt and white trousers with a white hairnet stands over a large dark metal cooking pot, handling food. Around him, several volunteers wear disposable green and white hairnets and plastic gloves, packing food into plastic bags. On the left, a woman in an orange-bordered white sari wears a rudraksha-style bead necklace. On the right, a woman in glasses and a cream sari with gold-toned border works at a metal tray of food. No a person candidate is visible.2012-01-04