- The Holi festival is a spring festival which is also known as the festival of colours or the festival of love.
- Colours are thrown around in powdered form at one another.
- It's an ancient Hindu religious festival.
- The festival is primarily observes in India, Nepal.
- It has become very popular all over the world.
- It celebrates the beginning of the new season, spring.
- In 17th century literature, it was identified as a festival that celebrated agriculture, commemorated good spring harvests and the fertile land.
- Hindus believe that it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying goodbye to winter for another year.
- It marks the beginning of new year to many Hindus, as well as a justification to reset and renew ruptured relationships, end conflicts and accumulated emotional impurities from the past.
- It also has a religious meaning as well as the symbolic one that I've just mentioned above.
I've been interested in being a part of this festival since I saw it on TV quite a few years ago. I made it my aim to go to the original place of the festivals birth, India, and contribute to throwing the colours around. My interest was sparked when I saw how fun and creative it looked, everyone was happy and looked to be having the time of their lives and the end result as well as the process looked beautiful, everyone was drenched in multi coloured madness. I was shocked to hear that the Indian society at my university had planned to put on a Holi festival on the grounds of one of the accommodations, I had to go. I've been looking into how germs spread and representing them in the form of colour, pattern and light so this opportunity wasn't only a personal gain but an academic one too. I planned to photograph the action and the end result of the people when they're covered in the colour so I brought my digital camera. My idea was to capture the people covered in colour and find a way to use them to represent the rapid germ spread in public in some way. When I arrived the action had already started and I immediately found out that it would not be safe to get my camera out when in the middle of it in terms of risk of breakage to the camera so I took some snaps from a far and then got involved. Unfortunately during the festival my camera had some how got damaged, either from the coloured powder getting into it or the running and jumping around I did during the fun so my images were not available in the end. I did however have a great time and will definitely bare my original idea in mind and maybe re-create the types of photos I had planned to take at a later date.
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