Driving up to Spanish Fork, Utah, a place that I had never even heard of prior to this weekend, to photograph the U.S. version of the traditional Indian Holi Festival that marks the coming of spring each year... I really had no idea what to expect to from anything.
Now called the "festival of colors," the celebration in Utah has taken on a feel of a Grateful Dead concert reminiscent of the days of Woodstock. That's truly the only way I can describe it.
Throngs of moving bodies packed shoulder to shoulder dancing, covered in colored chalk, singing Indian hymns of hare hare krishna to the beat of traditional Indian music, against a backdrop of traditonal Krishna temple smack in the middle of conservatist Utah ... The whole experience seemed utterly surreal.
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