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Women at the Attukal Pongala Festival

A vast crowd of women in traditional white and gold sarees participate in the Attukal Pongala festival, tending to thousands of clay pots on brick hearths lining a street in Thiruvananthapuram at dawn, with woodsmoke rising through the golden morning light.

Attukal Pongala at dawn in Thiruvananthapuram, thousands of clay pots on brick hearths lining a street to the vanishing point, woodsmoke rising from every fire through the low sun from the east, figures small and from behind tending the flames, terracotta, smoke blue and gold, 135mm See more

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