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As she opens the next folder, her eyes light up. These are images from Maha Kumbh, the meeting of the holy men in Allahabad, India, attended by 120 million people.
“I went to Haridwar for the Kumbh Mela. I also took pictures at a smaller Mela – only 20 million people! It’s like it wasn’t real, like it didn’t happen.” Sure enough, these saffron-robed pilgrims appear to be no more than ghosts drifting through the morning mist; ephemeral beings soaked in dew but somehow captured for eternity by the lens of Stephanie Cornfield.