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A night-time outdoor food preparation area at a relief camp, lit by fluorescent tube lights on bamboo poles. Large steel cooking pots and vessels sit on the ground and on a long steel counter, with a covered pot in the foreground. Sacks, cans, plastic packets and a blue tarpaulin lie on the reddish earth, including a sack labelled for turmeric. A worker in a white coat and white head covering stirs a pot at the right, and another man in a white shirt stands nearby. Several people in red and white clothing move in the background near a white building.

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A photograph inside a dim open-sided tent used for communal food preparation. Large stainless steel cooking pots and vessels sit on the dirt floor among sacks, plastic bags, tins and a blue tarpaulin. A tent canopy with red, green and purple striped fabric and scalloped edging overhangs the scene, supported by wooden poles and rope guy lines. Fluorescent tube lights hang from the frame. Two men in white shirts and white caps or head cloths stand working near the pots, and a few other figures are partly visible in the background. The setting suggests an annadan food service at a relief camp.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06A covered outdoor kitchen under a striped tent canopy in red, green, orange and blue, where volunteers prepare food for an annadaan relief meal. Several volunteers wear white hairnets and white or red shirts and lungis, one woman in a maroon sari bends over a large steel vessel stirring lentils, and a man in a striped shirt works beside her. Large stainless steel pots marked MSR, bags of grain, LPG gas cylinders and cans sit on the dirt floor, with bright tube lights overhead and an orange plastic chair in the foreground.2012-01-06A night-time outdoor relief kitchen under a striped canvas tarpaulin tent, lit by fluorescent tube lights hung from the poles. Large stainless steel cooking vessels and pots sit on the bare ground in the foreground, some with lids, and more pots and tables are arranged under the tent. Blue plastic sheets cover the floor and a patterned rug hangs at the back. A few people are faintly visible in the background, one wearing a striped shirt, working among the cooking stations. The scene reflects annadaan food service for a community medical camp, with no a person visible.2012-01-06A photograph of a large open-sided shed with a corrugated metal roof, where volunteers cook a relief meal for an annadaan at a medical camp. Huge black cooking pots sit over open wood fires on the dirt floor, with steel vessels of vegetables and rice nearby, and tubelights hang from the beams. Several volunteers in white head coverings stand at the pots and tables. A man in a white dhoti with a gold border and a green head covering walks through the centre foreground, and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti works on the right. Bags of rice and blue tarpaulins lie on the left.2012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor food preparation under a corrugated roof on bare dirt ground at a relief camp. Large aluminium cooking pots and steel vessels sit on portable metal stoves and tripods, with a blue tarp holding white rice sacks and vegetables on the left. Several men in white caps and hairnets work among the pots; one in a white shirt and blue lungi stands at right, and others in orange or white cloths and mixed clothing move around the cooking area. Plastic chairs, a truck and parked vehicles appear in the background under palm trees.2012-01-06January 07 20122012-01-07Night-time community kitchen under a tent roofed with red, blue, green and purple striped cloth. A woman in a white sari with a white head cover and red forehead mark stirs a large black pot with a long ladle, lit by a bright lamp. Around her, several people in white clothes work at big steel pots, pans and buckets on the dirt ground, preparing food in bulk.2012-04-06January 06 20122012-01-06January 06 20122012-01-06Outdoor community kitchen under a large canopy with red, green, blue and purple striped edges and a paisley-patterned top. Several people in headcloths and hairnets work among steel cooking pots, pans and steamers on a dirt ground. A man in a plaid lungi stirs a huge pot over a stove, while others prepare food at a table of white grains and sacks of ingredients. A red gas cylinder and stainless steel containers sit nearby, with colourful patterned cloth hung along the side.2012-01-04