#himachal pradesh

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected”~Robert Frank

“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can”~Jack Antonoff

Vyaas Rishi temple deities, Himachal Pradesh

Sri Jamdagni Rishi Maharaj  temple deities, Himachal Pradesh

Deity at Parashar Lake temple, Himachal Pradesh, photo by Vanshaj Prashar

Gods in procesion, Sri Pundir Devata, Himachal Pradesh

Bhatanti Mata Mandir at Naggar, Himachal Pradesh

Goddess mohra (metal mask used as utsava murti), Himachal Pradesh

Nandi, Himachal Pradesh

Temple at Himachal Pradesh

Goddess Chamunda at Himachal Pradesh

Fraternal Polyandry in India.

Amar and Kundan Singh Pundir are brothers. Younger brother Amar breaks rocks in a mine for a living. Kundan farms their small piece of inherited land. They live in a beautiful but remote hillside village in the clouds of Himachal Pradesh, India.

Both aged in their forties, the two brothers have lived together nearly their whole lives. They are poor and share just about everything: Their home, their work and a wife.

A worker walks along the top of a mountain road on the Leh-Manali Highway

Himachal Pradesh, India