Miles of Portraits India: A Magazine and Film Series

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A portrait of humanity, Miles of Portraits documents the people we meet as we bicycle around the world. - It's like a switch. Clicking "book flight" gives me knots in my stomach; fear of the unknown, of being a woman traveling by bike in the southern part of India – a country literally halfway around the world. Most of this fear though, is bullshit. As German solo female cyclist Heike Pirngruber puts it, "Fear happens in your mind – fear is hardly ever a reality."That fear finds it's way into our minds in large part via the media's focus on bad news rather than ...

Read More good. A skewed projection of a world on fire, rampant with rapists, serial killers, and terrorists makes for an overload of well-meaning concerns by friends, family, and strangers."I am starting to think that seeing a woman riding alone can ignite a sense of fear in others. When they are telling me I can't d

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