“To catch the universe in a moment, to find meaning in the moment, to see the light, to see the shade, to see the full picture in a fragment or a fragment in a full picture That is what I capture with my lens. The eternal play of light and dark Fuels my passion, my art,” Swarup Chatterjee described his photography journey.
In one of his series he had the opportunity to photograph the largest religious spectacle on earth, India’s Kumbh Mela.
“Much like the aspirations of every devout Muslim to attend the Haj at Mecca at least once in their lifetime, the same is true for devout Hindus attending the Kumbh Mela,” says Chatterjee. This year’s Ardh Kumbh Mela, held at Allahabad (ancient Prayag) near the confluence of three holy rivers – the Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati – may not have been the largest Kumbh gathering ever, (2013 at the same location drew some 100 million people), but its estimated 40 million nevertheless dwarfs any other gathering of any kind.”
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