Latest Project: Mahakumbh

The Maha Kumbh Mela is a Hindu pilgrimage that takes place every 144 years in North India, where the Ganga, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers meet. Millions of pilgrims from all over the world gather on these shores to seek absolution from sins, and celebrate their gods, creating a spectacular confluence of devotion and tradition. Yet beyond the event’s staggering scale lies something far more fragile: the intimate pulse of faith that connects each pilgrim to their own innocence.

My photography wants to preserve the fleeting moments when human beings return to their core nature, and the Mela presented me with a living embodiment of this search - an ocean of humanity moving as one, yet filled with countless individual gestures of devotion and surrender. Over the course of seven days, I looked past the monumental scale to focus on subtle instants of humanity: hands meeting holy waters, gazes lifted toward light and hope, bodies resting in prayer. These quiet revelations are where holiness lives: in the stillness that survives within vastness, and in the vulnerability that unites all souls seeking transcendence.

This project serves as both testimony and refuge: a visual meditation on faith as a return to innocence, where the sacred and the human merge into one timeless current.