My photo book “Nostalgia for Eternity” is now available online and in book stores in the
My photo book “Nostalgia for Eternity” is now available online and in book stores in the US, Europe and Asia.“Few photographers have succeeded so well as Leonid Plotkin in capturing the uncapturable color and texture, chaos and order, terror and beauty of the religious life of India, exploding before us here like the kaleidoscopic aftershock of some distant big bang in the depths of the world’s soul. A feast for the eyes, outer and inner as well.”—Matthew T. Kapstein, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy of Religions and History of Religions, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and The University of Chicago.“Leonid Plotkin is a rare soul, a pilgrim with his eyes wide open, able to see out, and within, at the same time—the journey’s end even as it begins. By his stunning photographs he captures the amazing richness of Indian ways of being religious, and by his own luminous words gives personal expression to every place and person he has met. Nostalgia for Eternity will draw its readers to India, back to India; and yet this is a guidebook, also for those who cannot go there now, on how to seek deep within ourselves the wisdom and love manifest in the world around us.”—Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, Harvard University.“This is a visually stunning attempt to capture some of the diversity of contemporary Indian religious life in photography. Leonid Plotkin has succeeded admirably in conveying the beauty, the brilliance, and the mystery of the sadhus and the monks, the fakirs and the holy men and women of India in one aesthetic firework. A brilliant volume for the intrepid armchair explorer of the Indian religious cosmos.”—Jan Westerhoff, Professor of Buddhist Philosophy, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. -- source link