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Join us in Varanasi, a photographer’s paradise, to witness and photograph a visually extravagant festival celebration! This mentored photography tour also takes you through the river-front and bylanes that offer incredible people and street photography opportunities.
Dev Diwali is a festival celebrated two weeks after Diwali, on the evening of Karthika Poornima. Varanasi Celebrates Dev Diwali with magnificent display of lamps on the three-kilometre long line of steps leading to Ganga. We have scheduled this tour along with Karthika Poornima (Dev Diwali), a festival day when every inch of the ghats facing the river are glittering with the light of oil lamps. You will see celebrations everywhere, with long line of oil lamps along the river bank and fireworks lighting up the sky. It is a sight that you will never forget, and would want to record everyone of those fine moments in your camera.
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Dates – November 2022 (dates TBA shortly)
Price – ₹39,150/- per person(Single Occupancy)
Max participants: 8 only
Overview – Varanasi Photography Tour
Photographers throng Varanasi from all over the world to capture the essence of India’s beliefs, traditions and religious life. Darter Photography now takes you on a mentored photography tour of this ancient city – to an India that has refused to change with time. Prepare for a photographic journey to the ghats and galis of Varanasi, where much of what Mark Twain described over a hundred years ago can still be witnessed unchanged. Join us to learn what it takes to photograph the memorable moments of everyday India, life in the small lanes of Varanasi, its celebrations in the steps leading to the Ganges, its people who have a firm belief in roots and traditions that have remained unchanged for millenniums.
This photography tour has an intense focus in solving the eternal dilemma in photographing people on the streets, the ethics of photographing people outdoors, the thought process related to seeking permission with your subjects, breaking away from the fear of photographing people and learning to create the mood that reflects your own thoughts with the help of your camera. This ultimate photography tour, aimed at capturing lives around us, will not only make you a better photographer, but a better person in appreciating, understanding and documenting the cultural fiesta that unfolds around us all the time.
Join us in learning to capture the essence of this vibrant, ancient city and its overwhelming scenes of life on the ghats, where everyday life and a sense of devotion merge together to form a cornucopia of photography opportunities.
Photographs from Varanasi
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Dev Diwali in Varanasi
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Dev Diwali in Varanasi
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Dev Diwali in Varanasi
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Ghats of Varanasi
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Ghats of Varanasi
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Ghats of Varanasi
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Ghats of Varanasi
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Ghats of Varanasi
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Ghats of Varanasi
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Ganga Aarti Celebrations in Varanasi
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Ganga Aarti Celebrations in Varanasi
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Ganga Aarti Celebrations in Varanasi
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Streets of Varanasi
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Streets of Varanasi
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Streets of Varanasi
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Life in Varanasi
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Life in Varanasi
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Life in Varanasi
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Portrait from Varanasi
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Portrait from Varanasi
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Portrait from Varanasi
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Life in Varanasi
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Life in Varanasi
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Dev Diwali in Varanasi
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Dev Diwali in Varanasi
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Life in Varanasi
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Streets of Varanasi
Tour Highlights
The four day mentored photography tour to Varanasi is designed to provide sufficient time to understand, immerse in and photograph the life along the bank of River Ganges and the narrow lanes of the old city next to the ghats. Tour calendar also includes photographing Dev Diwali Celebrations along the ghats. Please note that the festival is on the day of arrival and we begin the tour directly with photographing Dev Diwali Celebrations after checking in to the hotel and initial introductions.
The tour calendar includes intense photography sessions indoors, field sessions that help you apply from the indoor sessions into practice, guidance and assistance in photography by our mentor and daily image reviews. Expect this to be a rigorous course that not only takes you through the joys of permanently capturing the essence of Varanasi’s streets, but also helps you to learn and appreciate what we see around us and get an in-depth understanding of the place we are travelling in.
The four day tour calendar includes the following activities with the guidance of your mentor.
Your Take Away From This Tour
This photography tour will give you a better understanding in the following areas of travel, outdoor and street photography.
All the above topics will be dealt in depth with indoor sessions as well as in practice. Regular image critique from your photography expert will aid you in becoming a better self-critic and help you in assessing your own images.Tour Price
The price: Rs.39,150 per person.
The cost includes:
The cost does not include:Photography Mentor: Manish Lakhani
Few people can boast of having travelled the high Himalayas like Manish has. For more than 15 years, he has explored these mountains extensively on foot, on bicycles and on two and four wheels, often making his own path. He is a versatile photographer with a history of creating brilliant images of culture, heritage and landscapes.
He is renowned for his unique portrayal of remote cultures and traditions. He has photographed the cultural heritage across all the four corners of India, including the Changpa shepherds of the Himalayan Highlands, the native tribes of Nagaland, the nomads of Kutch and the rich traditions of Kerala.
He is Sony Artisan (Ambassador) in India for mirrorless camera system and Skylum Global Brand Ambassador for Asia. His works have been regularly featured in magazines across the world. He contributes to Adobe, BBC, WWF, CNN, Lonely Planet and many others regularly.
An avid cyclist, he has done an incredible solo bicycling trip of 15,000 kilometres across India. He visited many states of India, meeting different people, experiencing the diverse cultures and making some incredible photographs along the journey. He has since led many expeditions in the high altitude regions of Ladakh also with other cultural tours.
Having explored the corners of the old city of Varanasi and having observed every aspect of life on the ghats from early morning to late in the night for several days, Manish’s expert guidance will come handy in finding the right locations and the time of the day for photographing the splendors of Varanasi.
He has been mentoring photography enthusiasts for several years now and is known for his exuberant personality, in-depth knowledge of the terrain, expedition organization skills and, of course, his keen eye for photography.
You can follow him on Instagram,Facebook and on his website.
Registration
To register for the tour, please use the following payment gateway (powered by instaMojo). The gateway will guide you through the payment process and you’ll get an email confirmation once you complete the process.
You may also email us at photography@darter.in or call Shreeram (+91-9740083260) for any questions about the tour.Alternatively, fill in the form at the end of this page and we’ll get back to you with the details.
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