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Gotchya!

Gulal (Hindi: गुलाल) or Abir (Bengali: আবির) or Abhir (Odia: ଅଭିର) is the traditional name given to the colored powders used for the Holi festival.

Dharmendra Acharya, Gotchya!, 2019. Photography. ©Dharmendra Acharya. All rights reserved.

Dharmendra Acharya

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Acharya is a photographer from London, England who works out of Dudley, Massachusetts. He works as a photographer and music DJ. Here is a collection of candid photographs he captured of his family celebrating Holi. Absent are the high resolution digital camera, the staging, the hours of post acquisition color correction. All that remains are the subjects and the captured moment of joy shared among family and friends.

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Holi

Holi (Sanskrit: होली Holī) is a Hindu spring festival that is celebrated across the Indian subcontinent and by the greater South Asian diaspora across the world. Aside from being the festival of colors, Holi is a time to celebrate unbridled joy, love, and the triumph of good over evil. Through visual art, this installation highlights some of the spirit and traditions associated with Holi such as throwing colored powdered and spraying colored water through pichkari at friends and family and poojas (religious ceremonies).  

This collection is the result of generous donations from the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, the MGH Department of Dermatology, and the MGH Employee Resource Group Leaders Group.

Other work from Holi

incense burning in ceramic dish
In this painting Krishna is playing holi with his consorts.