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The Siolim Zagor in Goa is an all night festival of prayerful song, dance, stage performances and entertainment. Zagor is sanskrit for "Awakening" or staying awake. While zagors are performed all over Goa, what makes the Siolim zagor special is the coming together of two communities – Hindus and Catholics to celebrate together.
I shot the Siolim zagor this year as part of a film project by Alexander Henn.
It may be a hard life being a freelancer in digital media but then there are the perks no office ‘job’ can beat.
The Navhind Times – Promo Video from Gasper DSouza on Vimeo.
Just got through our last wedding assignment of the season.
As a photojournalist, wedding pj has given me ample opportunity to sharpen my people skills. It's exciting and stressful at the same time. We get to meet so many folks from different parts of the world and experience their most intimate moments and conversations – it's exhilerating. And then to think we are there to document those precious moments, that is what gives me great joy. At the same time it can be a little intimidating as well.
And yes, it can get painful having to wait for the action to start. In this pic today, my partner sits it out at a starred hotel while we wait for the bride. This was one wedding where i did not shoot the bridal make-up part at the request of the mother. That was a bit of a let down at the season end. I love to capture the moments of transformation from 'girl' to 'bride'
Looking forward updating my wedding pj portfolio site and to the next assignment.
Ten months ago, on Jan 1, 2008 I took the rather drastic decision of quitting my secure job at a local newspaper and striking it off as a freelancer, dabbling in multimedia and new media tools.
During this time, I used the internet to learn and develop skills needed in this fascinating arena. I have been following several blogs, spent entire nights viewing hundreds of multimedia work, participated in the Panos South Asia multimedia workshop and most important of all, together with my friend and mentor Alito Siqueria of the Goa University, got a group of enthusiastic young minds together under the name of GoCreat, to conduct Digital Storytelling (DST) workshops in the community – thus sharing our own knowledge in visual literacy.
It appears all of the work is now bearing fruit. I have just got news that GoCreat will receive a small grant for equipment, from the Toyota Foundation. This will enable our group to buy a few laptops, cameras and recorders to do some more work in DST in the community.
At a time when newspapers in the West are going through bad times, I feel fortunate that I have the chance to develop something exciting in New Media.
I started dabbling in multimedia back in Jan 2008. I intend to continue dabbling in 2009 and beyond, perhaps more seriously. After all, with “dabbling” and experimentation alone come fresh breakthroughs.
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To view Gasper's work in wedding photojournalism and cinematography, see aether.in
