Pyromaniac. “This photo was shot during the Shakrail Utshob (Ghuri Utshob) also known as the festival of kites in old Dhaka. After a euphoric kite flying day the young people of the area start celebrating with fire-crackers and fire games. Almost on all the roof-tops young men show their prowess in these risky and exciting games.” © Aneek Anwar courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2011
What we really have to share is not any spiritual treasure we imagine we have stored up, but our poverty, our common human situation, our inability to know.
–Tracy Cochran, from THE NIGHT I DIED: A brush with death leads to a glimpse of Light, from the new summer issue of PARABOLA: “Heaven and Hell.”
Photograph: Ernst Haas, The Cross, NYC, 1966
