A new life in Zambia: Early photographs by Sant Kumar Jain
In November 2022, whilst visiting my mother-in-law’s house in Ambala, India, I discovered an old box of colour slides that hadn’t been opened for years. Upon opening the box, I saw that the film surfaces had gathered dust, some were badly scratched and others deteriorated due to heat and humidity. The colour images were of a time I could relate to and were the very first images taken by my father-in-law, Sant Kumar Jain. He was deputised by the Indian Government to serve in Zambia and this is the reason why he travelled with his young family under an official ‘white’ Indian diplomatic passport.