We're excited to partner with BOSTON+acumen on the Dignity Boston Photography Sale & Auction benefiting Acumen Fund on Saturday, March 3rd. 

More information is available here and tickets are available here. This post is the third of five weekly installments previewing prints that will be for sale at the event. We hope to see you there!

Jody MacDonald. Dauji, India. 2010. Onset of Spring.

"Imagine the energy and power and excess that Mother Nature herself puts into spring -  the blooms, the growth, the surge of life.   Then imagine people imitating this raw energy and that's Holi,  the Indian festival celebrating the onset of spring.  Dense, frantic, unorchestrated, insane, messy, beautiful and at times, dangerous.  Holi is like a bee hive that's being rattled.  Women beat men with sticks.  Colored chalk rains down like a flood.  I dressed up like a local, wrapped my camera in plastic and tape and tried to blend in.  With all the chaos, it wasn't hard to do."

Ami Vitale. Varanasi, India. 2006. Untitled.

"In Varanasi, I visited the ghats, steps leading down into the River Ganges where according to Hindu mythology, the soul is liberated from the human body. Every day two million people ritually bathe in the holy river. Thousands come there at the end of their lives, simply to die.”

Kirk Mastin. Chennai, India. 2009. Woman Wading in the Bay of Bengal.

"I followed this woman out into the water during Pongal, the Tamil New Year festival. She was one of thousands if not millions, that day on Chennai's Marine Beach, the second longest in the world. On the third and final day of the festival, families throng to the beaches, irrespective of socio-economic class. She was having a personal moment away from the crowds and was unaware of me."

Teru Kuwayama. Siachen Glacier, Kashmir. 2002. Untitled.

"The Siachen Glacier has the dubious distinction of being the world's highest and coldest theater of war. For more than 20 years, the Indian and Pakistani armies have fought a low-intensity conflict at altitudes over 20,000 feet and at temperatures 50 degrees below zero. The glacier has no clearly identified strategic value, and both sides concede that there is no military solution to the war."