India - A Video Diary

Rockumentary - impressions of India, winner of NY Festivals prize.

This was shot as a personal video diary. Robb made it to show his children what India was like. Once Robb's colleagues saw it, he was encouraged to enter it to some film festivals. It won an award at the New York festivals as a travel documentary. It features the music of AR Rahman, who recently gained more attention outside India, because of his work on Slumdog Millionaire.

One strange thing happened while Robb was shooting this video. He was at an abandoned city called Fatehpur Sikri, which is about 26 miles from Agra where the Taj Mahal is located.

While taking a shot of an interesting texture on a wall something caught his eye and he spun round to take this picture. Only when it was later developed did he realize that there was something a little odd about it. Cyan colored transparent people! The cruelest irony is that with what Robb does for a living, creating illusions, even if this photograph is of something unworldly who would believe it?