Emma Wright, antyesti (Doco/Photojournalism (2018))

24 hours a day, seven days a week, the last sacrifice antyesti takes place on the banks of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal. Hindus believe that the human form is created from five elements (earth, water, fire, air, aether) and that the cremation process returns each of these elements back to nature, where they originated.

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