FOLLOWING A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION DOWN THE GANGES RIVER, THE MOST POLLUTED RIVER IN THE WORLD

In 2013 I was offered a chance to join friend and National Geographic photographer, Pete McBride, and his expedition team to India to do a story on the Ganges River, the most reviled, yet revered water source in the world. It would take 6 weeks, starting high in the Himalayas and ending at the Bay of Bengal. By van, boat, train and foot we weaved our way through tiny towns and chaotic bustling cities to test the river of it’s pollutants and get a first hand account of it’s health. But along the way, the state of the river began to slip from my mind as i turned my camera to those who live along it. It became challenging to think of the river as a science experiment. To millions, it was their lifeforce. Their home, their church, their sacred happy hour, their kin. Yet the irony of it all was how oblivious, or at least indifferent, the people were to it’s toxicity. Towards the end of the journey the tests began revealing, astonishingly, that the river was regenerating itself. It became cleaner as it neared the delta and began flowing into the Bay.

This book is my visual story about the powerful influence love and devotion can have on our existence.

73 pages
Full Color Glossy Print, Softcover
Printed by ArtBook Printing 2017
Limited Edition