by Geoff | Aug 27, 2015 | India
There is a Kumbh Mela occurring as I write this in Nashik, close to Mumbai. It seems relevant to revisit the main reason why millions make their way to these gatherings. That reason is an unswervable belief that sins will be washed away and...
by Geoff | Aug 23, 2015 | India
Gallery of images portraying a naga baba conducting rituals and bathing besides the river Ganges in Allahabad, February 2013, at the Maha kumbh Mela. Share this: Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Telegram (Opens...
by Geoff | Aug 22, 2015 | India
I went to London this week to see a photographic exhibition of the 2013 Maha Kumbh Mela at Allahabad by London based Polish photographer Boguslaw Maslak . His images, some featured here from photographs taken at the exhibition, brought back vivid memories of my own...
by Geoff | Aug 21, 2015 | India
I recently received a request from a student of architecture in India for some photographs I had taken of Nimtala Cremation Ghat, Kolkata. He had seen them on my website and wanted them to support his University thesis on devising plans for a new cremation complex,...
by Geoff | Aug 10, 2015 | India
“Two groups amongst My Ummah would be such, to whom Allah has freed from fire; One group would attack India & the Second would be that who would accompany Isa Ibn-e-Maryam (A.S.)” quote taken from a translation of the Hadith India is widely considered to be a...
by Geoff | Aug 4, 2015 | India
English folk custom is at its very best when it portrays dark and ‘weird’. Tony Forster, the ‘boss’ of Pig Dyke Molly says on their website ‘Rum old thing, the Molly tradition. So little is written down, and that is so obviously any...
by Geoff | Jul 30, 2015 | India
The on-line magazine Bizarre Culture has kindly featured images from my trip to the Maha Kumbh Mela in 2013 at Allahabad. The feature can be found here . The magazine provides a platform for the artistic work of ‘strong personalities who have a great sense of...
by Geoff | Jun 29, 2015 | India
Faces depicted on signs or murals in Exeter. Share this: Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new...
by Geoff | Jun 29, 2015 | India
Photographs showing granite cliffs on a misty day on the west Penwith peninsula, Cornwall. The granite rock formations and landscape around West Penwith have inspired artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson etc. Here the landscape looks towards Porthcurno from...
by Geoff | Jun 21, 2015 | India
It is customary to hang ‘clouties’ at fairy wells as an offering to either bring healing or wish fulfillment. As the offering weathers and erodes so healing occurs or wishes materialise. At some fairy wells, chapels were constructed, depicting a Christian...
