Gods Taking Selfies is a personal project/Tumblr blog where I photoshop South East Asian Gods and Goddesses to make them seem as though they are taking selfies. Though it began with archived paintings of Hindu gods, the project has now expanded to the vast visual language South-East Asia, a result of their centuries long depiction of spirituality.
The archived paintings in the entire series include:
Buddhist murals from monastries
Persian miniature paintings
Persian frescos from Middle East
Mughal Paintings of Shahs, Begums.
Miniature painting from Jaipur, India
Japanese miniatures
Japanese miniatures
spanning visual language from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey,Thailand, Japan.
Images below are a few from the series on the blog-
Images below are a few from the series on the blog-
(Ram and Sita)
When you are the most epitomised duo in Indian history and you gotta get the selfie just right…
(Radha- Krishna)
Getting a good angle under the banana tree- check.
When the girls are out having fun and someone announces a selfie
and everyone’s hand goes up like, wait dude- let me fix my hair.
When you want to be in the picture, but you also gotta ride the elephant.
When you at a crazy house party and shit gets real:
Must. Document. Everythinggg.
When the boredom strikes the begum.
"But bae, do you think the iphone is waterproof?"
When your best friend likes to pout as much as you do.
Arjun: Bro, get my best angle. Get the sunlight on my face.
Krishna: Chin up, boy.
Arjun: Does my jaw look amazing? Ok my jaw looks amazing.
When you need to argue about who has the longer arm to take the picture..
-Press coverage for Gods Taking Selfies-
The project also got some negative (and totally hilarious) publicity from a right-wing blog claiming the project was Anti-Hindu.
