The world of Hindu belief is one of a myriad of gods and kin encapsulated in an incredible number of stories and legends for Westerners only comparable to the realm of Greek gods. A mind-boggling world that can be experienced alive in India but has also been brought to life over its centuries in statues, temples reliefs, festivals and rituals. That they are more than formal effigies is evident every time you look at any part of a temple. Whether it is old or new doesn't matter. Life spills out of it. Energy and sensuality, power, violence and eroticism are all present as in this fragment of a relief in the museum im Mumbai. She is more than a woman, more than an iconic image. she comes at you. Maybe she jumps on you? Maybe she guards the temple? But whatever she does she has a personality with which she has her place in the firnament of Hindu deities.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…