Yamuna Ghat, Delhi — Rituals, Reflections, and Flight

At dawn, the Yamuna Ghat awakens in a symphony of wings and whispers. The panoramic sweep of boats, birds, and river light — captured through the unique 65:24 format of the Fujifilm GFX system — offers a perspective as expansive as the moment itself. These wide frames allow the viewer to step into the scene, to feel the rhythm of water and the chaos of flight.

Beyond the spectacle lies intimacy. Women kneel at the water’s edge in prayer, hands folded or vessels raised in ritual, embodying both devotion and resilience. Faces caught in stillness — a boy at work, a man wrapped against the morning chill, a woman resting by the fire — bring the vastness of the river back to the human scale. Together, these images form a meditation on contrasts: flight and stillness, ritual and survival, the sacred and the everyday.