Docs of group: Las caras mas bellas del Mundo

Fear in a Handful of Dust

nobody@ipernity.com (Designldg) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:11:37 +0000

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“And I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
(T.S. Eliot - American born English Playwright and Poet , 1888-1965)

This picture belongs to the series shot in my street in Varanasi (Benaras) while four men were emptying plaster bags from a truck.
It was very dusty, although they reminded me “butoh” dancers performing with white-body makeup.
This japonese contemporary dance came after the second world war and among several things the choreography is a remembrance of the suffering of Hiroshima's atomic bomb.
It rises the question of how is it still possible to dance after such a thing and in some ways it is easy to compare this concept of art to those workers living in dust.

Thank you all for your many comments on this set of pictures.

Smile at Each Other

nobody@ipernity.com (Designldg) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:20:25 +0000

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“Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.”
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Albanian born Indian Missionary and Founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. 1910-1997)

This is another portrait that I have shot last Sunday as I was walking near Lal ghat along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
Then I met several kids and young men bathing in the holy waters and listening to the lectures of a priest sitting under a big umbrella.
When they saw me each asked for a picture and of course I was happy to make a few portraits that I promised to print and to deliver at the same place today.

The Middle Child

nobody@ipernity.com (barçalunacy) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:17:35 +0000

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She is the second of 3.

Her oldest sister, Rania, just turned 3 and we have been celebrating her birthday for the past 3 days and will continue I daresay the next 23 hours.

Three weeks ago, a third sister, Safia was born.

So ... I am afraid my poor 15 month old grandchild is temporarily suffering the middle child syndrome.

To compensate for her status, I am posting this photo to memoralize her.

She's a pip, full of energy, with 4 new teeth this week and, suffering the terrible 2's after just turning ONE.

She's a ham and loves her photo taken. I adore her and her plump cheeks to death.

World!

Meet Nisha.

rosa

nobody@ipernity.com (Sajak) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:22:49 +0000

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fachgespräche

nobody@ipernity.com (Sajak) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:49:07 +0000

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My Friend Raimi

nobody@ipernity.com (Blendo) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:54:01 +0000

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meine Tochter

nobody@ipernity.com (JÜЯGЄИ ♥ يورغن) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:43 +0000

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faces of shanghai

nobody@ipernity.com (sophia von shakapopolous) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:45:22 +0000

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faces of shanghai

nobody@ipernity.com (sophia von shakapopolous) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:45:31 +0000

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october 2009, shanghai

faces of shanghai

nobody@ipernity.com (sophia von shakapopolous) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:45:46 +0000

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faces of beijing in shanghai

nobody@ipernity.com (sophia von shakapopolous) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:13:30 +0000

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faces of shanghai in beijing

nobody@ipernity.com (sophia von shakapopolous) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:58:22 +0000

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beijing, 2009
sweet sweet peggy

faces of wuhan in shanghai

nobody@ipernity.com (sophia von shakapopolous) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:45:08 +0000

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shanghai 2009, my dear colleague miaomiao

Into my Own Heart

nobody@ipernity.com (Designldg) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:11 +0000

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“I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not.
I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there.
I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not.
With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only 'anqa's habitation.
Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even.
Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range.
I fared then to the scene of the Prophet's experience of a great divine manifestation only a "two bow-lengths' distance from him" but God was not there even in that exalted court.
Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.”
(Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, known as Jelaluddin Rumi - Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and mystic, 1207–1273)

This picture was shot along the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras) where so many things reflect the divine consciousness of human life.