Indian Rites: Signs of Devotion
Paul Wakefield’s interest in India started when he was invited to visit a friend’s village in Kerala in 1982. He travelled with his customary 4X5 camera that he used for photographing landscape, his primary subject up to that point. After that initial trip, he realised it was the human landscape of India that had really made an impression on him, and so he changed direction, returning on many subsequent visits until 2001, with hand-held cameras and a new objective. He began focusing more on the everyday rituals that he witnessed around him, ranging from moments of individual intimate devotion, to festivals where millions of pilgrims would congregate around auspicious dates, such as the Kumbh Melas. Indian Rites : Signs of Devotion is an outsider’s observation of the adherence and dedication to spiritual practices performed as part of daily life in different parts of India. 310mm X 250mm cloth bound hardback book of 104 pages with 75 colour photographs printed on fine art FSC paper at Pragati Press in Hyderabad India. Published by Banaras Cultural Foundation with an essay, A Hand To Catch Time by Sara Wheeler and an introduction by Shrivatsa Goswami.
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