White Shadows is a photographic essay of widows living in Vrindavan, India. These women are destitute and reliant for their survival on charitable foundations and charities set up by wealthy Indian families, and on daily alms from pilgrims visiting the holy town. Since they usually wear white saris, as a mark of having renounced all lifes material pleasures, they appeared to me as fleeting shadows swathed in white. Both non-Flash and Flash versions are available. Visit the White Shadows website and see Tewfic -El-Sawy's stunning and evocative photographs>>

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