{"id":24206,"date":"2025-03-02T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meet-a-photographer-whos-covered-the-festival-for-30-years\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T18:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:13:02","slug":"meet-a-photographer-whos-covered-the-festival-for-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meet-a-photographer-whos-covered-the-festival-for-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet a photographer who&#8217;s covered the festival for 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Sanjay Banoudha, a photojournalist, has been covering India&#8217;s Kumbh Mela since the 1990s. This year the festival, which began on 13 January, ended on Wednesday. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">A lot has changed through Mr Banoudha&#8217;s decades-long journey of capturing the world&#8217;s biggest religious gathering &#8211; from crowds getting bigger to the art of photography itself. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">He spoke to the BBC about his memories and experiences. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\"><i id=\"this-video-was-recorded-before-the-deadly-crush-at-the-kumbh-mela-on-29-january.-thirty-people-were-killed-and-60-injured-in-the-incident,-according-to-official-numbers.\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">This video was recorded before the deadly crush at the Kumbh Mela on 29 January. Thirty people were killed and 60 injured in the incident, according to official numbers.<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\"><i id=\"video-by-anahita-sachdev,-antriksha-pathania\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Video by Anahita Sachdev, Antriksha Pathania<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c4gee1zz1klo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanjay Banoudha, a photojournalist, has been covering India&#8217;s Kumbh Mela since the 1990s. This year the festival, which began on 13 January, ended on Wednesday. A lot has changed through Mr Banoudha&#8217;s decades-long journey of capturing the world&#8217;s biggest religious gathering &#8211; from crowds getting bigger to the art of photography itself. He spoke to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24208,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206\/revisions\/24208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}