LAURENT GOLDSTEIN Photography

WONDER GO! España #2 Diciembre-Enero/December-January 2019/2020 Published on Dec 23, 2019 WONDER GO! España published twenty pictures that I took in Varanasi (Benares) along my words in this issue. This is a link in order to watch it on line: https://issuu.com/wondergospain/docs/wg2_preview2?fbclid=IwAR0a3WePhFjcWp69IZ63fpq_vxywrOeMLdVjcn8V-qPVDrsvxgen5njmUbA Banaras, Benares, Varanasi, Kashi, Avimukta... The City of Ligth...By Laurent Goldstein Varanasi (Benarés In Spanish)

Henri Cartier-Bresson in India

It became common to see images used to serve any agenda mostly because no one takes the time to check to see who the photographer is, where and when the image was shot and most of all what it is about. For instance since three years I keep on receiving a picture coming with a heartbreaking comment mentioning that this is "an Iraqi girl in an orphanage missing her mother, so she drew her and fell asleep inside her after respectfully removing her shoes outside." Of course it is

The picture "India's Cellphone Revolution" was published in French weekly newspapers LE 1 released the 14th December, 2016. It is a portrait of a Sadhu with a mobile phone carried as an amulet necklace, it was shot along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benares). India has a capacity of keeping its traditions while ajusting to modernity. Revolutions come slow but life changes fast and in the instant this holy man with a naked body, long matted hair and beard, appears wearing his mobil