India Photo Gallery

Morning puja by a yogi man on top of a hill in Hampi - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India

India Photo Gallery

Incredible India, Indeed!

How to describe a country like India, in a few words only?
The country with the most diversity of People, Cultures, Religions, Landscapes, Languages and Traditions. A general introduction of India is almost impossible to do…

India. Mother India.
She is everything and has everything but she also, often, has nothing.
She is home to the richest families as well as the poorest, most unfortunate and damned ones. She has children sleeping on king beds as others on street cardboards palaces. Some of Her children study, belly full, while others stride across the streets all day long to sell anything possible in the hope of a meal.
She has Casts and their ‘traditional’ social injustice. She has Hope and she has Despair.
But in all cases, she has Life, a strong instinct for Survival and great ingenuities to get situations better.
India is real and multiple, the true Country of contrasts, of the so many realities, sides, colours and faces.
Diversity is indeed what maybe defines Her the best : in its life conditions as well as in its face features and clothes, its traditions and habits. Not to forget Her Landscapes.
She is absolutely fascinating and bewitching for all kinds of travellers, but for the photographer, she is undoubtedly, the Mother of Travel Photography.

She is the Past and the Now.
She is modern as traditional, entrepreneurial as spiritual. She excels in Engineering and IT but she often has the most irrational and dangerous installations. Worldwide, She is admired for her Technological knowledge as well as studied for her Spiritual traditional practices. On the understanding of the complex Human Nature, She has some of the smartest biologists as some of the finest yogis to experience it. She has the Biology and she has the Ayurveda. The modern Science and the scientific Yoga.

She is extreme.
Extremely rich, extremely poor. Extremely hot, extremely cold. Extremely ancient, extremely modern.
There, you experience the whole range of emotions. You are confronted to the wide variety of the human condition : the abundance and the misery, the pleasure and the survivance, the health and the diseases, Life and Death.
She hides nothing. Everything is there, outside, under your eyes.
The beautiful and fascinating, the ugly and the unbearable.
For this, you love her and you hate her in the same time. Some people say, you love India or you hate it. But for me, you feel both.
Because she is extreme, she is real. Because she is so full of diversity, she is complete. Because she is hard, she makes you soft and compassionate. She is mischievous so she gets you alert and sharp. And She is loving and welcoming so she gets you melt. She awakes all the best in the human heart.

For all this, she is Mother India, the Mother of all conditions, lives and spirits. She is The Spirit…
Once you step foot on her ground, you are bound to her forever. She will call you back, again and again. At least for us, it is how it happened and still does.

And with all her diversity and richness of People, she is the dream country for Portraits and Street Photography. She also attracts all sorts of travellers, some of the most incredible and eccentric people as some of the most straight and peaceful persons you’ll get to know in the world. So as a storyteller, you’ll fill a whole book of these fascinating stories you came across with. And appart from that, with all her geographical differences, she is a great land for Landscape Photography as well.
In a few words she is, also, the Queen of Travel Photography. For all photographers, amateurs or professional, India Photos are an absolute and intemporal must.

[ India Photos by Lorenz Berna, Text by Florence Lepavec ]

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Visitors on their way home from the Desert Festival in Rajasthan - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — Visitors on their way home from the Desert Festival near Jaisalmer.

An Indian Sannyasi is praticing Yoga before sunrise on top of Anjanadri Hill near Hampi - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — An Indian Sannyasi is praticing Yoga before sunrise on top of Anjanadri Hill near Hampi.

A young man is getting his head out of a colourful house painted with the spiritual figure of Ganesha, the protector, in Jaisalmer- Extracted from Lorenz Berna Travel Photography Galleries of India — Street scene in Jaisalmer : a young man getting his head out of a colourful house painted with the spiritual figure of Ganesha, the God of protection.

People and camels in the Thar Desert, walking home after the Desert festival of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — People and camels in the Thar Desert, walking home after three full days of celebration for the Desert festival of Jaisalmer.

Snake Charmers in Jaipur - travel photography of India by Lorenz Berna — Snake Charmers in Jaipur.

Gadisar Lake at sunset, Jaisalmer, India — Gadisar Lake at sunset, Jaisalmer.

Street Portrait of a young man covered from the cold in a blanket in Old Delhi - A Lorenz Berna travel photography of India — Street portrait in Old Delhi, of a young man covered from the cold in a blanket.

Shaman of the Monkeys - India street photography by Lorenz Berna — A Langur Monkey is jumping away from the guardian of Savitri Temple near Pushkar.

Team of Fishermen pulling the fishing nets out from the sea in Kovalam - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India, Kerala — Team work for this group of fishermen pulling the fishing nets out of the sea, in Kovalam, Kerala.

Sunset colors reflecting on Gadisar Lake, Jaisalmer - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — Sunset colors reflecting on Gadisar Lake, Jaisalmer.

A Mother is walking in the streets of Pushkar by night, holding her child in her arms - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — A Mother holding her child in her arms is walking in the car lights on the streets of Pushkar by night.

'small monks' in Bodhgaya, India — Samanera, 'small monks', in Bodhgaya, the village where Gautama Buddha attained Enlightenment some 2500 years ago.

Exhausted and hungover, a young Indian Man is resting on a street stall after the Holy Festival in Varanasi, India — Exhausted, this young Indian Man is resting on a street stall after a full day of crazy celebration for the Holy Festival in Varanasi.

Young people during the Holy Festival in Varanasi, the Festival of Colours, India — Young people during the Holy Festival in Varanasi, the Festival of Colours.

Child working as a plastic collector in Varanasi during the Festival of Colours - A photography by Lorenz Berna — Child working as a plastic collector in Varanasi during the Festival of Colours.

Portrait of a young girl in Varanasi - A Lorenz Berna photography of India — Portrait of a young Indian Girl in Varanasi.

Young girl coming back from school, protected from the monsoon rain by a large multicolor umbrella in Old Manali, Himachal Pradesh - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — An 8 years old Girl from the Village of Old Manali in northern India, is going back home after School in a day of Monsoon.

Evening Puja on the arti ghats of Varanasi - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — On the Arti ghats of Varanasi.

Evening Puja on the Ghats of Varanasi - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — Evening Puja on the Ghats of Varanasi.

Child walking in the Morning lights in the streets of Old Delhi, India — Child walking in the morning lights of Old Delhi streets.

Portrait of a local man in Rishikesh, India — Local man in Rishikesh.

Portrait of a Muslim man at the Jama Masjid in Delhi, India — Indian Muslim man outside of the Jama Masjid Mosque in Delhi.

Smiling portrait of an old man in Manali, North India.

Silhouette in the morning lights in a street of Srinagar, India — Silhouette in the morning lights in a street of Srinagar, Kashmir.

Night meditation for a group of Buddhist Monks, in the spiritual temple of Mahabodi in Bodhgaya, India — All-night long meditation for a group of Buddhist Monks, in the spiritual temple of Mahabodi in Bodhgaya.

Landscape in the surroundings of Hampi, India — Landscape in the surroundings of Hampi.

Mountains from Kashmir, on the way to Srinagar, North India — Mountains from Kashmir, on the way to Srinagar.

People crossing a small bridge over the canals in Srinagar, Kashmir, India — People crossing a small bridge over the canals in Srinagar.

Muslim man on a Kashmir road to Srinagar - A Lorenz Berna Travel Photography of India — Muslim man on the way to Srinagar.

Indian police man with interesting moustaches from Jaipur in Rajasthan - A Lorenz Berna Photography of India — Rajasthani policeman in Jaipur, with very interesting moustaches for a Travel Portrait.

Portrait of a pilgrim Hindu woman in Pushkar by photographer Lorenz Berna — Portrait of an Hindu pilgrim woman in Pushkar.

Portrait of an old Tibetan man praying in Leh. A Lorenz Berna Travel Photography of India — Old Tibetan man praying in Leh, using his prayer wheel while repeating the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum".

View from Tanglang La in Ladakh on the Leh-Manali highway - A Lorenz Berna Travel Photography of India — View from Tanglang La mountain pass at 5,328mt. The Leh-Manali road is a very challenging road where it is common to find snow or water crossings, glacial melts and occasional landslides on the way. It crosses several high passes at over 5,000 metres which can get travellers to experience relatively serious altitude sickness.

Sunset on Lamayuru Tibetan Monastery in Ladakh - A Lorenz Berna Travel Photography of India — Lamayuru monastery is one of the oldest Gompa in Ladakh. With about 150 monks living there, it is also one of the largest one. The monastery is surrounded by many caves where, even nowadays, a few serious yogis come to spend part of the year in meditation.

A couple on the beach of Kovalam in Kerala is waiting for sunrise, India — A couple on the beach of Kovalam is waiting for the sunrise.

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