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Glacies Evanescens (Series)
DESCRIPTION
At the edge of breathability in India's Ladakh, where existence is as bare-boned as the terrain, withering winter cold and wild winds at elevations of 5,000m transform limpid lakes into temporary philosophies. Here, between solid and ethereal states, ice manifests as both medium and message - each crystalline formation a brief meditation on impermanence, written in a vocabulary that dissolves with the dawn. The ascent to these frozen altars, where even breath becomes a meditation, yields rich revelations about nature's terms of engagement: patience, persistence, and gracious surrender. In this rarefied realm, where water contemplates its transient geometries between solid, liquid and vapor, every image becomes document, devotion, and doctrine - mirroring matter's journey through its states of being
AUTHOR
An accountant, and mountaineer, by training, Sankar Sridhar chose photography
and writing for a career to explore his country extensively and document its landscapes and people.
His enduring personal project has been to document communities that call the
hinterlands their home. In this pursuit, Sridhar has spent years living and moving with
pastoral communities in the Himalaya and the Thar, as much to capture the nomads’
fading legacies as to find purpose and feel alive.
As a photographer, Sridhar’s images have received awards and honourable
at prestigious contests including the Prix De La PhotoGraphie Paris,
Global Photography Awards, IPA, Spider Black and White Photo Awards, International Mountain Summit, Montphoto Nature photography Awards, Siena International Photography Awards, Banff Mountain
Photography Contest, Humanity Photography Grant (China), ASE Photo Contest, Indian Photo Festival (India).
His book, Ladakh Trance Himalaya (2009), a visual travelogue spanning a decade of
trekking though the region, was dubbed a “feast for the eyes”, “an experience far out
of the normal” and “a celebration of adventure”.
While the book was very well received, and sold three editions of 2000 copies each,
Sridhar’s personal favourite moment was veteran National Geographic photographer
George Steinmetz congratulating him on the “inspiring images”.
and writing for a career to explore his country extensively and document its landscapes and people.
His enduring personal project has been to document communities that call the
hinterlands their home. In this pursuit, Sridhar has spent years living and moving with
pastoral communities in the Himalaya and the Thar, as much to capture the nomads’
fading legacies as to find purpose and feel alive.
As a photographer, Sridhar’s images have received awards and honourable
at prestigious contests including the Prix De La PhotoGraphie Paris,
Global Photography Awards, IPA, Spider Black and White Photo Awards, International Mountain Summit, Montphoto Nature photography Awards, Siena International Photography Awards, Banff Mountain
Photography Contest, Humanity Photography Grant (China), ASE Photo Contest, Indian Photo Festival (India).
His book, Ladakh Trance Himalaya (2009), a visual travelogue spanning a decade of
trekking though the region, was dubbed a “feast for the eyes”, “an experience far out
of the normal” and “a celebration of adventure”.
While the book was very well received, and sold three editions of 2000 copies each,
Sridhar’s personal favourite moment was veteran National Geographic photographer
George Steinmetz congratulating him on the “inspiring images”.
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