The photographer Charles Fréger visits the annual elephant festival in Jaipur, Rajasthan, to capture the elephants and their riders - mahouts - dressed up and painted in splendid colours The ...

French photographer Charles Freger loves portraits. He has taken some of sumo wrestlers at their schools in Japan, trainees at the Finnish naval academy, the indigenous Himba people of Namibia.

For the most part, his projects are typically a mix of anthropology and photography, a starting point for readers to learn about traditions and also for those who participate in them to have a ...