When Ole Witt showed up at the police department in Jaipur, India asking if he could take some pictures of the office, an official in charge told him it would be no problem—Witt would just need to wait a few minutes. Until then, he could take a seat. Maybe have a chai. "In the end," Witt says, “He made me wait 14 hours." Thankfully, that impressive display of slow-moving bureaucracy was precisely what Witt had come to photograph.

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