Back to the Ganges, and lines and triangles and circles and saris. A woman gives orders to someone off-scene while she holds out a sari to dry in the fierce mid-morning sun along the River Ganges in mid Feb 2013. Shot on a faulty Leica M4 with a 50mm Collapsible Summicron for which the […]
wedding dancers
Along the street leading from Godwalia down to the Ganges there is a fork in the road, the right fork being a short distance down to Dashashwamedh Ghat. It was along here that I heard drums being played, and noticed this group of people dancing in the street. The next day, […]
sannyasin
Not far from Godwalia, a compound, the back of which a courtyard lined with sparse rooms homing Sannyasin. When we visited most were in Allahabad, attending the Kumbh Mela. The few remaining were too old or ill to go. Sannyasin (for male, the female is Sannyasini) are renouncers, leaving behind their former lives and their families, stepping […]
morning ritual
Not far from Godwalia in Varanasi sits the Mukti Bhavan. This photo shows a ceremony I witnessed one morning, conducted by the resident ritual priests. The woman was a participant in the ceremony. Later on in the proceedings she would also bring in her baby. I was not sure exactly what the ceremony was for. […]
visual record of seeing in the process of seeing
The two pictures in this post were, again, taken on the trip to Varanasi, India. Both are scenes from along the banks of the River Ganges. Although the trip was actually part of a journalism project, for which the photos needed to be content driven, the two photos here are of a different kind, taken […]
bicycle repair
Immediately parallel to the River Ganges within the city of Varanasi is a stretch of road lined with buildings of final grandeur and disrepair, a mine of material for street photography. I walked down this street on several occasions, looking out for interesting scenes to evolve. These two photos I got on the penultimate day […]
adding colours
There are many reasons why I choose to stick to black and white photography, among them the abstraction of the image, the connection to the history of photography, and the fact that I just like the aesthetic. Another, more prosaic, reason is the fact that I am by now very familiar with the process — […]
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