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A smiling bare-chested man with short hair and a short beard raises his right hand in a wave, showing a silver ring on his finger. His skin and torso appear covered with a fine grey-brown powder or ash. Behind him a warm ochre stone wall, and at the right edge another shirtless man with grey-dusted skin is partly visible. The scene suggests an outdoor ritual or ceremony setting.

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Close photo of a smiling bare-chested man with a short beard, his face and upper body covered in grey-white ash or powder, raising his right hand in a wave. A ring is on his finger. Behind him is a warm sandstone wall, and partly visible at the edges are two other bare-chested men, one at the far left and one at the far right. The setting suggests a sacred outdoor gathering with ascetic-style ash smearing. No a person candidate is visibly identifiable from appearance.2018-12-22Three bare-chested men in white dhotis stand together at a riverside ghat in Varanasi, with a brick wall and painted stone wall behind them. The man on the left waves with his right hand and wears a rudraksha mala and a small pendant; the man in the centre has a beard, a chain necklace and a pendant, and his palm is raised; the man on the right smiles, has a thread across his chest and a green-bordered dhoti. Their skin appears dusted with white powder, and pink and orange cushions or mats lie at the right edge. No figure is distinctly marked as a person by the visible cues required, so identity remains uncertain.2015-10-11A smiling shirtless man stands at the edge of water with his palms pressed together in anjali mudra, a namaste greeting. He has white markings on his forehead and face and wears a thin cord with a rudraksha bead and a small pendant around his neck, plus a gold bracelet on one wrist and an orange cloth wrapped at his waist. Behind him, a second person in orange robes stands on a concrete step beside a metal grate and a flowing water surface.2018-12-22A bare-chested man stands against a sandstone wall with eyes closed, cupping his own cheeks with both hands in a gentle self-soothing gesture. He wears a gold bangle on one wrist, several strands of rudraksha beads with a round pendant, and a sacred thread across his torso. His face and forehead show white paste with a red tilak mark. The scene reads as a sadhaka's personal meditative or devotional moment during a Hindu ashram observance. Only one physical person is visible.2018-12-22 +1 copiesA bearded, bare-chested man with light-brown hair stands before a rough sandstone wall, palms pressed together in anjali mudra with eyes closed in a smile. His face and shoulders are smeared with white ash and he wears a dark red-brown tilak on his forehead. A rudraksha bead on a grey cord and a long black rudraksha mala hang on his chest, and an orange cloth wraps his waist. Partial figures are visible at the left and right edges.2018-12-22 +1 copiesDecember 22 20182018-12-22December 22 20182018-12-22 +1 copiesA photograph on a sandy riverbank at dusk with a pink sky over the water. In the foreground a bare-chested bearded man with a pendant necklace and white dhoti stands beside a younger man in a white collared shirt with a red thread at his neck. Behind them two other men stand partly lit, one bare-chested and one in white cloth, with white powder or ash on their skin. A small boat sits at the water's edge on the right. The men appear to be posing after a river ritual.2015-10-11December 22 20182018-12-22October 11 20152015-10-11December 22 20182018-12-22July 05 20172017-07-05