Personal photo walk at the Maha Kumbh Mela, Allahabad 2001
The Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering on earth, is taking place these days in Haridwar and everyone makes plans to go. I recently read a post about the fact that photography is now prohibited at the Kumbh grounds, which I feel is completely ridiculous. It seems the Indian government has gone a little too [...]
Painting with Light: How to find a boring image and make it beautiful
Painting with light is something that I used to do in the time when I had my studio and was shooting still life in large format, but it is as easy to do with hand held flash and a DSLR. You have to have an image of what you want to do of course, but [...]
Video killed the radio star
Sometime back I wrote a post about street photography in India titled Maharaja’s postrait photography in 21st centure India . The post was about what today is considered an alternative photographic process that was invented in India and used for decades by many street photographers across the subcontinent, mainly India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
I have been [...]
Indian middle class
The growing middle class is the face of the Indian upswing. Excellently trained, ready to perform and happy to consume, the young social climbers liberate themselves from the burden of the past. But what do they believe in? What do they dream about? What keeps them going?
These are the opening lines for the feature about [...]
Trucking in the Himalayas
My book ‘Horn Please – Trucking in India’ is almost finished and we are scheduled to go to print in a couple of weeks. It’s been a year of extensive work and it was funny to see that some of the images that we all like the most were captured only in the last month [...]
Microfinancing loans, or Christian missionaries in disguise?
Is the NGO distributing micro loans to women in Chhatisgarh actually a front to a new Christian mission in disguise? I have just returned from Raipur, Chhatisgarh, shooting a feature about microfinancing for a German consumer magazine. The shoot was very simple and straight forward, but we have found some remarkable facts about the NGO [...]
Portraits of HIV
India is one of the largest and most populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it’s estimated that around 2.3 million people are currently living with HIV. Never the less, in India, as elsewhere, AIDS is often seen as “someone else’s problem” – as something that affects people living [...]
‘Wide Angle’ Group Exhibition at Alliance Francaise de Delhi
After so many years of not exhibiting any work at all, I am participating in a second group exhibition within a span of a month. The exhibition titled ‘Wide Angle’ and organized by WonderWall.co.in is coming up at the gallery Romain Rolland at the Alliance Francaise de Delhi on October 24th, 2009.
The list of photographers [...]
Sephi Bergerson is a documentary photographer based in New Delhi since 2002, with easy access to all locations in south east Asia and the Indian ocean.
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Personal photo walk at the Maha Kumbh Mela, Allahabad 2001
The Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering on earth, is taking place these days in Haridwar and everyone makes plans to go. I recently read a post about the fact that photography is now prohibited at the Kumbh grounds, which I feel is completely ridiculous. It seems the Indian government has gone a little too [...]
Painting with Light: How to find a boring image and make it beautiful
Painting with light is something that I used to do in the time when I had my studio and was shooting still life in large format, but it is as easy to do with hand held flash and a DSLR. You have to have an image of what you want to do of course, but [...]
