Curious about Guru / Shishya relationships… I began this experiment in education…
When I first tried to give cameras to the women, many of them seemed nervous to try making excuses like “But I don’t know how to take pictures.” or “I’ve never done this before, I won’t be any good.” But they were lining up for cameras, once I put it this way: “You tell me everyday in your sadhana you meet god, and you don’t think you can learn to use a camera?”
Ascetics with Cameras Ascetics with Cameras is a seva (volunteer service) organization providing multimedia services, tools and training to Shiva’s Army – the sadhus & sadhvis of Juna Akhara – since 2004. It is our mission to, not only provide multimedia tools to document and preserve the living-histories of these followers of Sanatan Dharma, but more importantly to train the members (of the oldest and largest order of Dasnaami Hindu ascetics) to document it for themselves. Giving them the skills to share with the world the stories and aspects of their culture they find important, will empower these ascetics to participate in the process of media-making to which their Akhara has been subject for centuries and enlighten audiences to the sacred, ancient paths and esoteric traditions of truth seekers.
"When you are on the outside looking in, it's sometimes difficult to get the story, much less get the story right..."
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