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When Modi Comes to Town

July 2026  ·  14 frames

Fourteen frames from the afternoon of 9 July 2026, outside Marvel Stadium, where a crowd gathered to welcome the Prime Minister of India.

Saffron flag against the black glass of the stadium, low sun and haze, figures walking in silhouette

A saffron flag by the Gate 9 promenade.

Dhol players in blue vests walking away through drum smoke, long shadows across the concourse

Drummers cross the concourse.

Boy in a navy gilet with his hands flat on a drum skin, drumsticks tucked under his arm

A boy plays his drum.

Backs of heads stacked up the frame in the queue beneath the Guest Services sign

The queue at Guest Services.

Three women against a blue and purple wall, one on her phone, one in a yellow sari

Three women waiting.

Back of a red turban with a woman in glasses watching past it

Watching the concourse.

Man mid shout in a white t-shirt printed with Modi's portrait over both flags, a raised fist behind him

A man shouts in a shirt printed with Modi’s face.

A Melbourne Meets Modi t-shirt photographed with the wearer's head cropped away

A Melbourne Meets Modi shirt.

A Modi mask worn on the side of a woman's head, her own ear and hair beside its profile

wearing a Modi mask.

Fist raised above a tan puffer jacket, tricolour over the shoulder, hands clapping at the left edge

The crowd dances with joy.

A blurred hand sweeps across the frame, flags and a woman's profile behind it, police at the far edge

A woman moves with the beat.

The Australian flag and the Indian tricolour held up together, anonymous hands beneath

The Australian and Indian flags held together.

A woman takes a selfie beside someone wearing a Modi mask, the tricolour held across them both

A woman takes a selfie beside a Modi mask.

A dhol carried away on a shoulder at the end of the morning, writing visible on the drum skin

the drummers leave.

Photographs by Jason Goldingay

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