In forty years I’ve retourned to India fifty times, altough I fell under the bewildering spell of another world, I learnt to know and understand a people who believe in the freedom of silence and for whom the joy of living is the conquest of one’s desires. - Roberto Dotti

I’ve never been to India. It was Roberto Dotti who brought India to me. What the photographer is giving visual shape to is not merely an image, nor a forceful emotion. It is a photographic thought. - Francesco Fredi, photography critic

Dotti’s work really doea occupy an extraordinary place in contemporary photography and is incomparable to anyone else’s. When referring to him, one is referring to both history and stories. And us? We watch on, fascinated. - Hans-Michael Koetzle DGPh - Chiefeditor, Leica World.

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God Bless You
M Teresa me (Calcutta, 5 febbraio 1980)

A mon ami le grand photographe Roberto Dotti en souvenir affectueux de toutes nos aventures Indienne, de tout coeur, Dominique Lapierre (Calcutta 20 ottobre 1999)