by Geoff | May 4, 2015 | India
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by Geoff | May 4, 2015 | India
Four or five train loads of 60 containers ( locally called racks ) arrive at Kashi Station, just outside of Varanasi, each week. Each ‘rack’ weighs 70 tons. Some 200 workers are employed on a daily basis to unload the trains and to fill lorries which...
by Geoff | May 4, 2015 | India
A series of portraits of people from Kolkata has been uploaded as a gallery. The photographs were taken in and around the Flower Market, Kalighat and Tollygunge and therefore within a ‘stone’s throw’ of the river Ganges. All were taken with full...
by Geoff | Apr 19, 2015 | India
Nimtala is a region of Kolkata adjacent to the Ganges river. Upstream from the Howrah Bridge and behind the always smoking Cremation Ghats are a community of people which live either side of the Kolkata Circular Railway line. The conditions here have been described as... by Geoff | Mar 11, 2015 | India
The traditional Hindu practice of cremating bodies assumes a greater level of finality and reverence in Varanasi than perhaps anywhere else in India. Recognised as the ‘city of Shiva’ the whole city is spiritually considered a ‘cremation area’ though in practice...
by Geoff | Mar 2, 2015 | India
The notion of a ‘tirtha’ has always intrigued me. In its widest interpretation, tirtha refers to anywhere, often related to pilgrimage, where gods/goddesses and men/women become closer together and even intermingle in localities where the boundaries of...
by Geoff | Dec 12, 2014 | India
The planning for the trip to India on January 5th 2015 is continuing at a steady pace. A return to Asia is an event to be celebrated, but it does bring with it some trepidation and anxieties, not least around health. My main considerations have been about how to build...
by Geoff | Dec 4, 2014 | India
Another cold and grey winters day finds me on the outskirts of Glastonbury, having lunch in a fairly new cafe called the Bocabar. It is a part of the Red Brick Building, a community arts, education and enterprise centre situated on the site where the old Morlands...
by Geoff | Dec 1, 2014 | India
The Sigma Merrill series of cameras are ‘not for pussies’, as described by the veritable Michael Reichmann on his website The Luminous Landscape. He maybe correct. Built around a Foveon sensor and world class lenses, the Merrills provide unique...
by Geoff | Nov 24, 2014 | India
Somerset is famed for its carnivals which wind throughout the larger towns of the region on Autumn nights. Here, on a farm on the Somerset Levels at Moorland, are the remains of a float from another year. Apart for the local relevance of the statues it does also...
