Honorable Mention
Pilgrims at Maha Kumbh Mela
DESCRIPTION
Pilgrims walking on several boat-bridges during Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, Uttar Pradeh, India. Kumbh Mela is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism. It is celebrated in a cycle of approximately 12 years at four river-bank pilgrimage sites: the Allahabad, Haridwar (Ganges), Nashik (Godavari), and Ujjain (Shipra). The festival is marked by a ritual dip in the waters, but it is also a celebration of community commerce with numerous fairs, education, religious discourses by saints, mass feedings of monks or the poor, and entertainment spectacle.The seekers believe that bathing in these rivers is a means to atonement, penance) for past mistakes, and that it cleanses them of their sins.
AUTHOR
Erberto Zani is an Italian freelance photographer and journalist.Graduate at University of Parma in History of Arts, he spended several years as photographer in advertisement sector (1998-2004).
He worked as journalist and photographer for the newspaper Gazzetta di Parma (2004-2007) and as editor in chief for magazines Arim Salute, 2008-2011, Inedito Koppel, 2005-2015, Amurt Newsletter, 2008 - until today.
Freelance since 2008, most of his works are focused on documentary-humanitarian themes.
He cooperates with companies, magazines and No Profit Organizations, for photographs and editorial projects.
Member of Italian Order of Journalist (n.122388) since 2007.
Photography books designed and published:
Elemental fashion (2018), Exodus / Rohingya in Bangladesh (2018), Kied Pologo (2017), Aftermath (2016), Black World (2015), Maha Kumbh Mela (2014), Tsiry (2014), Babanagar-Colombia (2013), Sahel (2012), Hope (2011), Haiti, fragments (2010), Drops of Life (2010), Da Borgo San Donnino al Passo della Cisa (2006).
