“’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes” wrote playwright Christopher Bullock in The Cobbler of Preston. And, indeed, when you are a death photographer – someone who takes final portraits of the dead before their cremation at Varanasi’s burning grounds – as is Sooraj (Gyanendra Tripathi), you would probably think that you’re doing a job that will always be needed. But Varanasi is a place that is changing, and Sooraj stands to see himself become irrelevant as high quality digital cameras and ever improving cameras on smart phones make it easier and faster to take pictures of great quality for mourning families. And those who worked on the ghats who find themselves irrelevent must leave or find other work. As one photographer who has given up says, “Death photography doesn’t pay.”
Barah X Barah (“Twelve by Twelve”) looks not only at Sooraj and his profession,...
Barah X Barah (“Twelve by Twelve”) looks not only at Sooraj and his profession,...
- 4/22/2022
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
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