This was the last photo project I put together before I left India back in December. It's a slice out of a day in the life of a couple of men I came to know while living in Varanasi. While during the day these men are seen as lepers ... beggars ... untouchables, in the evening, after they've returned to their slum village on the outskirts of town, they're revered as village elders ... grandfathers ... and living examples of the hope that can be found in the face of oppression.