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Photograph of a seated ritual gathering where several devotees wear white jasmine garlands with red rose accents. A bespectacled man with a shaved head and white forehead markings wears a white cloth and a rudraksha mala. Beside him a woman in a red and gold sari with a gold necklace and a red bindi sits attentively. On the right a man with white forehead tilak and red-and-white garlands sits in front of wooden beads. Background shows more women in saris and a child with a bindi.

A crowded seated congregation in a temple hall during a ritual. In the foreground, an older bald-looking man with glasses and a bare chest wears a rudraksha mala and holds a small brass bell. Beside him, a man with white hair and a moustache, also bare-chested and wearing rudraksha malas, holds a bell in his right hand. Behind them, a person in an orange turban and a woman with long blonde hair in a light blue sari with a rudraksha mala sit among others. Several people wear white forehead marks. A printed name tag hangs from a man's neck. Red curtains and a pink wall are in the background. a person's presence is not clearly identifiable here.

Three people stand close together under a corrugated metal roof in a sunlit ashram hall. On the left, a shaved-headed man in a white dhoti with a gold-edged border and gold necklaces faces the others. In the centre, a smiling woman in a maroon sari and yellow top wears a red bindi and a white jasmine garland with red roses. On the right, a bald, bearded man in a grey sweatshirt and wristwatch presses his palms together in anjali, also wearing a white and red flower garland. A red-and-orange wall and framed notices are behind them. No a person candidate is visible.

October 26 2016

2016-10-26 +1 copies

Night photograph of a dense crowd in a temple courtyard, with people pressing forward behind a stone gateway. In the foreground, a bald elderly sannyasi in a white forehead mark, rudraksha headband, floral garland with red flowers, and gold necklaces stands beside a younger man in a brown shawl with a rudraksha and gold-bead garland and white forehead mark. A central figure with long dark hair, a full beard, red bindi, rudraksha malas and an orange saffron robe stands between them and appears to be a person in a standing, attending role, while the elderly priest's hands reach toward a ritual vessel at lower right. Several onlookers in white and pink shirts watch closely.

A bare-chested man with long dreadlocks, decorated with marigold garlands, flower petals and orange-and-white beaded ornaments, reaches toward a silver ritual vessel on a stand, holding white powder in his hand while a kneeling man in a grey t-shirt leans forward. Behind him a man in a saffron/orange top and rudraksha malas, and a man in white with a sacred vibhuti forehead mark, stand near a tall silver staff. A person in a white and gold shawl wearing rudraksha malas looks on. Red flowers lie on the base.

Several seated devotees perform a puja ritual with brass oil lamps and incense sticks on a tray in a pink-walled hall. A bare-chested older man with white hair and white sandalwood markings on his forehead and body wears a long rudraksha mala. Beside him a man with grey hair and a rudraksha mala holds a small brass lamp, and younger men with glasses hold similar lamps. A woman in an orange head wrap and a woman with long blonde hair in white garments sit in the background.

A photograph of a ritual scene indoors with a red carpet and light walls. In the foreground an elderly bare-chested man with white hair and a white beard, wearing a white dhoti with a gold border and a gold chain, bends forward and holds out his cupped hands toward a bearded man in an orange-saffron garment with a rudraksha mala. A younger man in a white kurta with a rudraksha mala stands beside him holding a small round object. Behind them a standing man with a shaved head and a red tilak wears white, and several other people in white, saffron and pale shirts stand in a crowd. A man on the left wears a white dhoti with a gold border and a rudraksha mala.

February 13 2018

A photograph of a seated figure in a red-brown robe with a leopard-print cloth at the waist and a white-and-orange flower garland, bowing forward with a hand extended to rest on the shoulder of a woman in an orange sari with a floral-embroidered shawl and glasses. A man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala stands bending over, and another person in orange appears behind them. Devotees in the background stand near a wall of framed photos. A tilak mark is visible on the seated figure's forehead.

September 16 2015

2015-09-16 +1 copies

A photograph of a shirtless, bearded man with long dark hair, wearing a saffron-orange cloth draped over his shoulder, placing his right hand on the head of a kneeling woman with her hair in a bun. Behind him stands a woman in an orange sari with rudraksha malas and a white forehead band, and to the left a man photographs the scene with a camera. Several men in white dhotis and orange-red shawls with rudraksha malas stand in the background beside gold-coloured pillars and a maroon curtain. The man in saffron appears to be the a person candidate, identifiable only by appearance cues such as long dark hair and saffron clothing; the setting suggests a blessing or initiation moment at an ashram gathering.