A crowded boat crosses the Ganges as birds fly close to the water in Varanasi, 2019

Photographic Collection

Place

River, ghats, architecture, courtyards and lanes presented as environments that are continuously inhabited, used and changed by human activity.

Curated, not exhaustive

Place

A public collection presents an editorial selection drawn from the archive. A photograph can appear in several meaningful pathways while remaining one underlying archival object.

A hazy view of riverfront buildings and ghats along the Ganges in Varanasi, 2019 — **Riverfront in Haze**The layered riverfront seen through morning haze.V-2019-051

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 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

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 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

A man carries a child on his shoulders while walking beside the Ganges with boats behind him, Varanasi, 2019 — **Along the Riverfront**Family movement along the riverfront.V-2019-082

A man kneels in a wooden rowboat on luminous morning water on the Ganges at Varanasi, photographed in 2014 — **Morning on the Ganges**The river becomes working environment, sacred horizon and visual space at the same time.V-2014-654

An elephant beside an auto-rickshaw in Varanasi, photographed in 2014 — **Unexpected Varanasi**Street life can produce visual encounters that resist advance planning.V-2014-704

Quiet Moments by the Ganges

Distance and stillness slow the pace of the archive.

A man prays at a shrine through a weathered blue doorway in Varanasi, photographed in 2014

Sacred and Ordinary

Prayer, contemplation and everyday activity share the same public landscape.

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Photographic Collection

Place

River, ghats, architecture, courtyards and lanes presented as environments that are continuously inhabited, used and changed by human activity.

Curated, not exhaustive

Place

A public collection presents an editorial selection drawn from the archive. A photograph can appear in several meaningful pathways while remaining one underlying archival object.

Quiet Moments by the Ganges

Distance and stillness slow the pace of the archive.

Sacred and Ordinary

Prayer, contemplation and everyday activity share the same public landscape.

Continue exploring

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