Nine phases. 551 million voters. 8,251 candidates. The highest turnout ever. It has been a year since India's General Elections, and we're still just understanding the full impact of what happened in 2014. For more than a month, last year, Scroll.in's photographers fanned out across the country to cover the elections from the point of view of those who matter the most: the voters.
Curated by photographers Ritesh Uttamchandani and Prashant Vishwanathan, Scroll's Instagram project saw photographers put down their fancy DSLRs for much simpler machines: their phones. A year later, some of those photos have gained in meaning as we've come to understand the full import of the way people voted in the General Elections.
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Curated by photographers Ritesh Uttamchandani and Prashant Vishwanathan, Scroll's Instagram project saw photographers put down their fancy DSLRs for much simpler machines: their phones. A year later, some of those photos have gained in meaning as we've come to understand the full import of the way people voted in the General Elections.
Here are some of the defining images captured: