The flower sellers descend on the market at the crack of dawn, having left their far-off villages well before first light. Raju Mukherjee, a member of the seller’s association of the market, said, ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A few years ago I was on an assignment in India. I had a day off, so I went to the Mullick Ghat flower market in Kolkata.

Gerberas, carnations, roses, chrysanthemums and oriental lilies are high on everyone’s list,” he said, adding that very few people in India have flower import licenses. “Some Kolkata dealers ...

Critic and Curator Uma Nair has been writing for the past 34 years on art and culture She has written as critic for Times of India and Economic Times. She believes that art is a progressive sojourn.

two hours by road from Kolkata, is known as Bengal's Valley of Flowers thanks to the abundant flower fields Images by the author It might seem unusual to think only of colours when describing a place, ...

Walking through the nearly 130-year-old Mallick Ghat flower market in Kolkata, Danish photographer Ken Hermann’s eye was drawn to the men carrying long garlands of orange marigolds.

Ken Hermann shot this series of 55 portraits over a course of eight days in Kolkata’s Mullick Ghat Market, India’s largest whole sale flower bazaar. Images from the series Flower Man have been ...