Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India

Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India traces a journey across India through photographs of work, waiting, movement, and human presence — a search for stillness, grace, and quiet rhythm within the noise of everyday life.

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Cover of Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India by John G. Hoey, showing a person carrying a tall stack of folded textiles on a bicycle, along with the book’s black back cover, spine, title, barcode, and author name.

Book Details

Hardcover
10 × 8 in. landscape
160 pages
Mohawk ProPhoto Pearl paper
Published by AJ Photographic Art, LLC
ISBN 979-8-9931925-3-6

Interior spread from Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India titled The Corridor of Stillness, showing a quiet arched corridor with scattered sandals and a distant figure in orange.
Women in colorful saris seated on a wooden cart near a harbor in India, with metal vessels, boats, workers, and bright midday light around them.

Interior Spreads

Selected spreads from the book sequence.

Interior spread from Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India titled Merchant of Color, showing a shopkeeper surrounded by stacks of colorful folded fabrics and hanging garments.
Interior spread from Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India titled Rituals of Care, showing a man receiving a shave at a small outdoor barbershop in India.
Interior spread from Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India titled Faith Drawn in Chalk, showing a woman seated near a white chalk kolam design with a dog resting beside it.
Interior spread from Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India titled Pedi-Cab, showing a resting driver’s bare feet and legs inside a yellow auto rickshaw.
Interior spread from Roads Without Silence: 9 Weeks in India titled Behind Glass, showing a young passenger seated by a vehicle window, layered with reflections of buildings and street details.

Selected Images

Individual photographs from the book.

Fishermen working with nets and fish beside boats at a harbor in India, surrounded by fishing gear, shoreline activity, and bright midday light.
Portrait of a fisherman seated beside a blue boat structure at an Indian harbor, with soft sky and worn fishing equipment around him.
Men carrying a large decorated ceremonial canopy through a street in India, with scooters, temple architecture, market activity, and weathered buildings around them.
Child seated among large bags, sacks, and supplies near stone steps in India, surrounded by blue tarps, rice bags, and street-side materials.
Men gathered in a busy Indian street market beside stacked cups, auto rickshaws, storefront signs, and colorful market fabrics.
Woman in a yellow sari walking through a crowded Indian market while carrying a large sack of greens on her head.
Vegetable vendor seated among colorful produce at an Indian market, surrounded by pumpkins, gourds, eggplants, greens, baskets, and street-side supplies.
Horse and handler walking along a crowded beach in India, with people playing near the surf, shoreline activity, and soft evening light.