Photographer
Eli Shams recalls the story of this portrait of a sun-starer:
Pacing small lanes of old Banaras, I followed this sadhu coming back from the river with his traditionnal pot. I liked his steps, and when he stopped to sprinkle Ganga holy water on some children, I asked him for a picture. [He raised his eyes to stare into the sun.] I waited for him to look at the camera, and waited, but he was frozen… So I shot, than he relaxed. I asked why ??? He said : "I am nothing great, so I wanted you to have the sun in my eyes."
Here are
some other
sun-starers, including this
great painting by
Edward Hopper.