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The Holy Men of Varanasi

Varanasi is one of the oldest still inhabited cities in the world and the epicentre of Hinduism. Its also a spiritual home for India's sadhu's. These holy men are revered by Hindus as representatives of the gods and sometimes worshiped as gods themselves. They are ascetic wanderers respected for their holiness and feared for their curses.

I had an overwhelming curiosity towards these holy men who had wilfully renounced themselves of all earthly possession and dedicated their lives to the pursuit of spiritual liberation. Their reality is dictated only by the mind, not material objects. Even death is not a fearsome concept, but a passing from the world of illusion.
Baba Vijay Nund I. 2015
Archival Pigment Print 
19 x 13 inches
 
Brahmin I. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
18 x 13 inches
Baba Shava Sadhana I. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
18 x 13 inches
Baba Vijay Nund II. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
13 x 18 inches
Brahmin II. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
13 x 18 inches
Underpass Baba. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
19 x 13 inches
Lal Miti Sidr Baba. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
18 x 13 inches
Brahmin III. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
19 x 13 inches
Brahmin Performing Puja. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
18 x 13 inches
Baba Shava Sadhana. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
13 x 18 inches
Baba Bhokali. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
19 x 13 inches
Baba Biji Ana. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
18 x 13 inches
Aghuri Baba I. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
13 x 17 inches
Arsu Baba II. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
13 x 18 inches
Aghuri Baba II. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
18 x 13 inches
Arsu Baba I. 2015 
Archival Pigment Print 
17 x 13 inches
The Holy Men of Varanasi
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The Holy Men of Varanasi

A selection of prints from my collection of portraits of the holy men of Varanasi taken in early 2015.

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