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Honorable Mention BIFA 2021 People / Culture

Ganga Aarti Ceremony

  • Photographer
    Giovanni Sonsini
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in People / Culture

The Ganga Aarti Ceremony is celebrated at sunset in the three holy cities Varanasi, Haridwar and Rishikesh. It is a Hindu ritual dedicated to the Mother Goddess Ganga, the Goddess of india's most sacred river

I’m a non professional photographer keen on landscape, architecture and travel photography. I have a degree in mechanical engineering. My passion for photography began at my ninth birthday when I received a gift from my uncle a simple but beautiful Kodak Retinette and then I began experimenting by myself with apertures, shutter speeds and so on. Since then I have continued to take pictures although during the university studies as well as many very challenging work periods had a negative impact on my photographic work. In the last ten years I started to take pictures with some assiduity-