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“For an image to speak to me, it must be an image of something; the role of color is to accentuate that thing and the emotion triggered in me. It is only then that I can communicate what I felt; to begin to truly understand color is to begin to understand the many hues and emotions of Life itself.” (an excerpt from my Artist Statement)
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The Making of “Kashi: City of Light, Colors & Mystery”
Sometimes it happens: You’re there with your camera and something astounding comes to pass. And you have but a split-second to capture it. People say I’m lucky to encounter such moments as regularly as I do. My reply is that Luck favors the prepared mind…
And there I was in a boat on the river Ganges in Varanasi when the events that went into the making of this photograph came to pass: this lady, who’d probably just finished taking a dip in the holy river, a shawl thrown over her as she changed out of her wet clothes, the better to protect her modesty.
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What caught my eyes were the colors. The emotions triggered – had I not known the setting and the circumstances in which this photograph was taken – would be one of a deep sense of Mystery: Who is that? Why is she covered like that? What is she doing? And where is she? And while I – in the paragraph preceding this one – have answered many of these questions, there is still such a deep sense of mystery to this image; one cannot help but want to know even more about that woman.
Such is Kashi – The City of Light, Colors, and Mystery!
In post-processing I strongly boosted the contrast to better give the feeling of depth and mystery, while boosting saturation. I also gave the image an impressionist feel, resulting in a fine art print that is more a painting than a photograph.
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