中文简介：

国际知名摄影师查尔斯·弗雷格（Charles Fréger）继续探索全球传统和文化，庆祝印度民间文化和宗教仪式的强大视觉方面。印度是无数地方传统、传说和宗教的故乡，每个地方都有自己的节日、仪式和典礼。这些庆祝活动迸发出鲜艳的色彩和狂热的服装，有些代表了神和女神，有些则是梵文史诗（如《摩诃婆罗多》和《罗摩衍那》）中的传奇英雄。

在查尔斯·弗雷格的摄影作品中，那些尊重当地文化传统的人以单人或群像的形式出现，在精心挑选的风景和背景下，展现了他们复杂的装饰，包括面具、头饰、服装和身体彩绘，表达了印度无数故事和人物的丰富想象力。

这一系列肖像画由武士、神灵、音乐家、老虎、马夫、史诗人物和他们的化身组成，附有文字介绍各种服装的背景，以及当地节日和仪式的描述。这些引人注目的肖像画将吸引那些对民间传统感兴趣的人和查尔斯·弗雷格的粉丝。

英文简介：

Internationally renowned photographer Charles Fréger continues to explore global traditions and cultures, by celebrating the powerful visual aspects of Indian folk culture and religious ritual. India is the home to a myriad of local traditions, legends and religions, each with their own festivals, rites and rituals. Celebrations burst with vivid colours and often wildly exuberant costumes, some representing gods and goddesses, others legendary heroes from Sanskrit epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

In Charles Fréger's photographs, those who honour local cultural traditions are represented in single or group portraits, represented against carefully chosen landscapes and backdrops, from the heart of festivals and celebrations. Fréger's unmistakable style of portraiture allows us to admire the complexity of their adornments – masks and headdresses, costumes and body paint – and to consider the abundance of imagination that expresses India's countless stories and characters, both human and divine.

This spectacular gathering of warrior figures, deities, musicians, tigers, mahouts, epic characters and their avatars is accompanied by texts setting the huge variety of eclectic costumes in context, and describing the local festivals and rituals. This compelling sequence of new portraits will enthral those with an interest in folk traditions, as well as the followers of this internationally acclaimed photographer.