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What do you believe are the main reasons that your idea of empowering ascetics with cameras have attracted the sadhus ? First of all over the past three Kumbh Melas since this project began, the scope of media has changed, with less expensive consumer cameras, mobile phones with cameras and especially in the past few years, the [...] Teaching Mahant Durga Giri, from Nepal, how to use her new 35mm point and shoot. view more pics here on [...] Over the course of my three journeys to the Kumbh Mela, living and traveling among the ascetics of Juna Akhara, at the festival itself, in their ashrams and along various pilgrimage treks, I have made considerable effort to assimilate and thus relinquish my initial identity as a journalist, tourist, or foreigner. As I am a multimedia [...] Prem Giri and Nicole, Varanasi 2007 – photo: gabi ghersi Last night, as I do every so often, I sent out a few text messages to some of the phone numbers I have stored in my phone from Kumbh 2007. All I wrote (in Hindi) was that I was thinking about them… my phone rang a [...] The next Kumbh Mela will be between March and April, 2010 in Haridwar. I will be resuming my Ascetics with Cameras program during this time. |
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