A hazy view of riverfront buildings and ghats along the Ganges in Varanasi, 2019

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Architecture & Place

Riverfront buildings, narrow passages and an interior panorama reveal different scales of the city. Uncertain building identifications remain qualified in the captions.

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Architecture & Place

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A very narrow weathered lane recedes toward a small figure beneath tangled overhead wires in Varanasi, 2019 — **Narrow Passage**The compressed scale and texture of the old lanes.V-2019-106

A wide panoramic interior believed by the photographer to be inside a mosque in Varanasi, 2019 — **Interior Panorama**A panoramic mosque interior; exact mosque identification remains to be verified.V-2019-083

Several cattle rest in front of a bright yellow building in Varanasi, 2019 — **Cattle and Courtyard**Animals, architecture and people share a courtyard-like public space.V-2019-075

A cow rests on the stone riverfront steps below a pink building in Varanasi, 2019 — **Cow on the Steps**A quiet animal presence within the lived architecture of the ghats.V-2019-033

The broad sandstone façade of a riverfront mosque rises above a solitary figure in its courtyard in Varanasi, 2019 — **Riverfront Architecture**Riverfront ArchitectureV-2019-207

Quiet Moments by the Ganges

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Photographic Collection

Architecture & Place

Riverfront buildings, narrow passages and an interior panorama reveal different scales of the city. Uncertain building identifications remain qualified in the captions.

Explore the collection

Architecture & Place

Each collection brings together photographs through a shared subject. Follow an image into its story, or discover it again through another place or theme.

Quiet Moments by the Ganges

Distance and stillness slow the pace of the archive.

Continue exploring

Return to the archive entrance →Journey by place →Learn about the documentary approach →