{"id":3335,"date":"2011-07-09T23:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T03:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2011-07-09T23:11:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T03:11:38","slug":"support-darshan-a-photographic-series-on-indian-deities-by-manjari-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/09\/support-darshan-a-photographic-series-on-indian-deities-by-manjari-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Darshan: A Photographic Series on Indian Deities by Manjari Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

I recently got an email from my good friend Adam Marelli<\/a> about a young woman photographer from New York named Manjari Sharma<\/a> who is currently fundraising money on Kickstarter to complete a photography project titled: “Darshan<\/strong>.” Darshan is a sanskrit word which means sight, vision, or view and what Manajri is trying to accomplish is to prove\u00c2\u00a0that a carefully constructed photograph can evoke a similar response to the religious paintings and sculptures.<\/p>\n

I believe fervently in the idea of “paying it forward.” Last September, many of you helped donate generous sums of money to fundraise a plane ticket for me<\/a> to teach a street photography workshop in Beirut, Lebanon. Therefore I decided to help donate $101 dollars to Manjari’s project and help her achieve her dream. If you watch her video on Kickstarter, you can truly see her passion for the project– and I think it is our goal as photographers to support and help one another.<\/p>\n

Make sure to watch the video that Manjari Sharma put together about the project below, and head over to her Kickstarter<\/a> page and donate! Adam Marelli also wrote a great feature on his blog as well, make sure to check it out here<\/a>. <\/p>\n