welcome questions mailer wallpaper icons essays viewer HOME 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 occassionally, people volunteer additional information with the photo submissions. there are times when the words prove as compelling as the image and i thought i'd share some of them that have stood out. (essay is towards the bottom of the page) First & last photo submitted by Aloke Kumar Bhanja (india) everyman 2005 - from the attic This is a rare photo which was taken in the year 1922, at Bankura near Calcutta, India. This photo comprises my mother (left), my grandfather (middle) and my maternal uncle (right). When my grandfather died my mother wanted to have a photo of her father and as he has never been photograph before in his life time, a photographer was hurriedly arranged on the cremation ground and the dead body was elevated in a sitting posture to take the photograph. This is the first and last photograph of my grandfather.