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River of Sacred Lights

The Holy River of Lights documents the Diwali festival in Varanasi, a single night each year when the Ganges is transformed by fire, devotion and ritual. Photographed from a moving boat, the series captures hundreds of thousands of flames and pilgrims reflected in the sacred river.

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Art of Storytelling Contest

2025

Silver

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Professional

River of Sacred Lights

The Holy River of Lights documents the Diwali festival in Varanasi, a single night each year when the Ganges is transformed by fire, devotion and ritual. Photographed from a moving boat, the series captures hundreds of thousands of flames and pilgrims reflected in the sacred river.

About Artist

Sharon Tribelsky

Sharon Tribelsky is an Israeli professional photographer. born in 1960 and living in Kibbutz Bet Zera, which is in the Jordan Valley located in Israel. he graduated with four years of photography studies from Canada Wizo Art College in Haifa. His works are exhibited at galleries and shows around the world and printed in books and magazines. For a period of fifteen years, he was involved in industrial and commercial photography and also managed a commercial photography studio. He is taking landscape images and drone projects only for fun, not to make a living. (from time to time also street photography). his drone images series of the sinkholes at the Dead Sea “Dead Land” won sharon the title photographer of the month at the Itsliquid Group contest in April 2022. This series also has been selected as the category winner of the Monovisions Awards 2022.

Sharon Tribelsky

Photographic Areas of Focus

Landscapes, People, Street, Travel

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Israel

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