Photographer Jason Gardner travelled across 15 countries for 15 years to document traditional Carnival in its myriad of manifestations. Seeking out villages and towns where festivals are at their most folkloric or least visited by outsiders, Gardner collaborated with ethnographers and local experts to engage with and understand each festival which at their core were united by universal themes of ritual, masquerade, identity, roots, and symbolism.
A selection of his vast archive of photographs were published last year in ‘We the Spirits’.
Very intersting!
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