Balarama Heller, Sacred Place

Sacred Place

Balarama Heller

Publisher
TIS Books
Year
2025
ISBN
978-1-943146-40-6
Specifications
Softcover with tip-on, silkscreen and foil stamp
Swiss binding with golden thread and violet dyed edges
22.5 x 30 cm
76 pages
60 images printed in seven colours
Afterword by Pico Iyer
Shortlisted, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2025, First PhotoBook
The Ten Best Photography Books of 2025, Smithsonian magazine

Made in the hours before dawn, when the veil between the spiritual and the material is thinnest, Sacred Place is a personal pilgrimage about faith, memory and spiritual transformation. Born into the Hare Krishna movement, Balarama Heller returns to the place of his childhood and photographs its light, its animals and its rituals.

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