Sadhus & Nihang

A theme I worked on again and again, when visiting India and Nepal are the Hindu-monks, known as Sadhus. Meanwhile I have quite a collection of photographs ( slides as well as
blck & white negatives ). Most of this pictures I took while visiting big festivals like Mahashivaratri at the temple of Pashupatinath / Nepal or the Kumbh Mela at Haridwar in 1998, when I spend more than 2 month there.
The pictures of the Nihang, the sikh warrior-“priests“ I took in 1999 at Anandpur Sahib, at the occasion of the festivities of the 300 anniversary of the founding of the Khalsa by
Guru Gobind Singh the 10th and last Guru of Sikhism. The photographs of this slideshow are all done with analog equipment, digital SLR I started to use from 2003 / 2004 on.

 
nihang_2.jpg nihang_13.jpg nihang_12.jpg nihang_3.jpg
old_nihang_1.jpg nihang_prozession_2.jpg nihang_martial_arts.jpg nihang_mit_pferd_1.jpg
young_nihang_with_horse.jpg nihang_boy.jpg preparing_bhang.jpg 3_nihang.jpg