“Turn these pages slowly. Each one is a musical note; the rhythms and the rhymes follow one another. Let yourself be immersed in another world, this world of the East. Another culture, another way of living. Another way of seeing, too. An East we no longer find in China, a little in Japan, but which survives in India despite the temptation of the West, its techniques and its impatience. Caroline Abitbol saw that East we no longer hear about. She brings back images of it, and it is a joy to discover these gestures here, these faces in the mist.” — Marc Riboud