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Despite this, at the height of her career, Beeche became “drawn like a magnet” to India, and left the world of commercial photography behind Branagan was careful to “retain the integrity and authenticity of Robyn’s life story and its spiritual focus, whilst making the story accessible to audiences” with Beeche? “It was really inspiring to work with Robyn, as she’s so deeply immersed in her region, her town, her ashram and her life path,” noted Branagan. “It was great to see her dedication to seva in action. She has a tremendous conviction about the value of documenting the regions”. Branagan also noted that Beeche’s “archive is going to have huge long-term value for the future”.

Beeche recounted to Indian Link how a photographer, after seeing her exhibition in Mumbai of UK portraits, told her that he “gave up commercial photography and travelled India photographing the people”. This is the kind of inspiration that she loves to hear about. Although her early work provides inspiration to photographers across the globe, her Indian photographs are “revered more in India, as ‘darshan’ in the temples is more understood,” she explained.

And Beeche’s favourite photograph? “I would say that the pink elephant with widows is one of my favourite images as there is a lot going on in the photograph which only became known to me afterwards, such as the small boy holding his head underneath the elephant,” she said. And Holi is one of her favourite festivals to shoot.