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by Sean Whitehill
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Ganges Aarti, Varanasi, India

Giclee archival print on cotton rag

$ 85.00 - $ 125.00 AU


$ 85.00 AU

20cm (W) x 20cm (H)

$ 105.00 AU

30cm (W) x 30cm (H)

$ 125.00 AU

40cm (W) x 40cm (H)

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The Ganges is a holy river to India, a river whose influence touches the lives of so many millions. It feeds crops, livestock, people. It's a place of play, to bathe, to wash, to do your laundry. In some places the dead are burnt alongside. Gathering water from the Himalaya in the north, it holds and shifts vast amounts of water, and so no matter how much filth goes into the river, it is constantly flushing through, washing it all away. The river gives so much, but asks so little...

An aarti is a ceremony that happens on the banks of the great river every day, in numerous towns and villages along its banks. I caught a couple in Rishikesh, and a couple in Varanasi, on the Dashashwamedh Ghat where a long row of steps descend into the river for whatever purpose you may have. Every evening as night falls, the river is worshipped with the chanting of hymns, with the offerings of fire and flowers. In some places, it's quite a spectacle and attracts large crowds of locals and tourists alike. A beautiful thing.


Print Information

All prints are produced from high quality scans that use embedded colour profiles to ensure that the print colours are as true as possible to the original artwork. The prints are archival quality, using the giclee printing process on 310gsm cotton rag paper that is acid-free and lignin-free.

Please note that colours may vary from what you see on your screen or computer monitor. This is due to the fact that every screen or monitor has a different capability to display colours and that we all see these colours differently.

Sizing
203 x 203mm (paper size) 173mm (image diameter) 
305 x 305mm (paper size), 265mm (image diameter)
406 x 406mm (paper size), 366mm (image diameter)

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