French observed that Penn’s photographs were ethnographic portraits and therefore realistic and captured life in an ‘as-is-where-is’ condition. Penn spoke about his great-grandfather Albert Thomas Watson Penn and the photographs he took of Ooty, its people and the landscape between 1865 and 1911. The evening light turned mellow at the magnificent Nilgiri library, as we enjoyed the last dollop of literary sumptuousness at the Ooty Literary Festival 2018. As the last rays of the sunlight dipped in farewell, we sat down to an incredibly nostalgic session ‘Me Great-Grand dad ‘ad a camera’, which had Christopher Penn in conversation with Patrick French. The journey of discovery of these pictures began in 2005 when Christopher found a letter about them from an unheard-of cousin.
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