Tag Archive for: Portrait Photography

Ganga Aarti by Shirren Lim
On my Northern India trip, I stopped by Varanasi to witness the Ganga Aarti. An aarti is a devotional ritual that uses fire as an offering. It's usually made in the form of a lit lamp, and in the case of the Ganges River, a small diya with a…

Motherhood by Ryszard Wierzbicki
When visiting Mumbai I did many portraits of people on streets. That was a great opportunity to develop skills of observation and composition frames. Life is going on, on streets in India and is not so preserved and privatised as in Europe.…

Bodh Gaya Gang of Friends by Ryszard Wierzbicki
When taking photos in villages surrounding Bodh Gaya, you cant avoid local children who are gathering around all the time, being curios of you and your photographic equipment. In this situation you have two choices, how to cope with that circumstances...…