COW ASHRAM

• Photographer
  Mauro De Bettio

(Varanasi, India) - I met this sweet man at the cow ashram along the Ganga in Varanasi, right above the smoky landscape of the Manikarnika ghat. I sat down, with my daily chai, admiring his dedication for a while. The delicate movements of his thin but strong arms, the dance of those fingers wet from a white nectar and the delicate care for his beautifull animals. Simplicity and purity of gestures that, again, made me feel warm and fuzzy inside as this land often was able to give me.

Born and raised in a little village in the Italian Alps, now based in Barcelona, Mauro already felt from young age the desire to tell. He discovered that the camera was the right tool for him, the eye through which he could speak to the world. An instrument that began to walk by his side towards a long journey of discovery. “Although it is difficult to express, I think that the photograph represents my way of speaking and what I try to do through my language is to capture the sense of what I breathe and touch with my hands. Not only in appearance but also, and especially, in the essence".