Ardh Kumbh Prayagraj 2019
This was my first Ardh Kumbh without the presence of my Naga Guru late Shri Vijay Giri Maharaj he passed away at Mangalore in 2017 .
We were together for Ujjain Kumbh 2016 .
I thought this time I will join the Aghoris at Ardh Kumbh I reached their Akhara but they had left for Kashi they suggested I go to the Transgender Kinnar Akhara where my Guru Maha Mandleshwar Laxmi Narayan Tripathi was at the helm but I got a call from another Naga Guru he was a colleague of my Guru he said come over to Juna Akhara extension I immediately hopped into a rickshah paid a bomb reached the Akhara .
I stayed with them it was close to the river bed and here on Shahi Snan I met a lot of foreign photographers I was very close to Reuters photographer Jitendra Prasad he was a local from this area and we had shot Nasik and Ujjain Kumbh .For me as a photographer shooting diverse faith religiosity the Kumbh is a moment of learning ..I promote peace and humanity through my photography and I seamlessly fit in the religion I shoot be it Hinduism Sufism Shiasm.
India is an amazing place for photographers like me I missed my friend mentor Dr Glenn Losack .
I did not shoot the Haridwar Kumbh 2019 20 ..I had taken my first jab of the vaccine and did not want to miss the second one ...the other problem was my bypass surgery and diabetes .
Of late there is no events in my city I mostly shoot the streets with my Vivo 20 mobile phone .
I miss my foreign photographer friends Boaz best photo companion Marc de Clercq Francois and Laurent Salesse ...times have changed ...we are caught in the vortex of a Virus that is deadly and dangerous .
Ardh Kumbh Prayagraj 2019
This was my first Ardh Kumbh without the presence of my Naga Guru late Shri Vijay Giri Maharaj he passed away at Mangalore in 2017 .
We were together for Ujjain Kumbh 2016 .
I thought this time I will join the Aghoris at Ardh Kumbh I reached their Akhara but they had left for Kashi they suggested I go to the Transgender Kinnar Akhara where my Guru Maha Mandleshwar Laxmi Narayan Tripathi was at the helm but I got a call from another Naga Guru he was a colleague of my Guru he said come over to Juna Akhara extension I immediately hopped into a rickshah paid a bomb reached the Akhara .
I stayed with them it was close to the river bed and here on Shahi Snan I met a lot of foreign photographers I was very close to Reuters photographer Jitendra Prasad he was a local from this area and we had shot Nasik and Ujjain Kumbh .For me as a photographer shooting diverse faith religiosity the Kumbh is a moment of learning ..I promote peace and humanity through my photography and I seamlessly fit in the religion I shoot be it Hinduism Sufism Shiasm.
India is an amazing place for photographers like me I missed my friend mentor Dr Glenn Losack .
I did not shoot the Haridwar Kumbh 2019 20 ..I had taken my first jab of the vaccine and did not want to miss the second one ...the other problem was my bypass surgery and diabetes .
Of late there is no events in my city I mostly shoot the streets with my Vivo 20 mobile phone .
I miss my foreign photographer friends Boaz best photo companion Marc de Clercq Francois and Laurent Salesse ...times have changed ...we are caught in the vortex of a Virus that is deadly and dangerous .