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Over the last five years, in the course of working on a photography book “Just Another Indian Wedding,” I may have witnessed and documented a greater variety of Indian weddings than any other person on earth.

Traveling the length and breadth of India for the book, I was searching out differences and similarities in Indian wedding traditions, while trying to find a single theme that could explain the essence of this grand, colorful and fantastic celebration.

The book features weddings from a vast array of Indian communities: Tamil Brahmin, Bengali and Sikh, Hindu Punjabi, Hyderabadi Muslim and Rajput; Kashmiri Pandit, Ladakhi Buddhist and Goan Catholic; Syrian Christian and Zoroastrian Parsi. I also photographed a mass wedding of the Dawoodi Bhora community in Mumbai and a Kodava Coorg celebration.

The book is scheduled for publication in 2013 by Harper Collins.

Sephi Bergerson is an Israeli-born photographer who has lived and worked in India since 2002 and photographed the country’s polio eradication campaign since 2004. His first book, “Street Food of India,” won several international awards. More information is available on Fotowala, his blog on wedding photography in India.

