Hardcore Cheek Piercing

Hardcore Cheek Piercing, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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All my pictures are like a continuous story board, I always shoot with a single camera , here at the Maryamma Macchimar Feast 2010 I used two cameras shooting wide and telly.

I shot a 6 GB Card ..

This lady is a laborer , she works in a gutter outside my building at Bandra , she is a Tamil and all her colleagues including her contractor are devotees of Maryamma.

She is tall poor but stately lady, she bore her pain when the rod entered her mouth , I dont miss a single frame if I am shooting the rod piercing of children or women I shoot single frame but fast.

Because I have been shooting this event for last three years ,I know every nuance and response both of the pierced person and the piercer..

The most intriguing moment is the spitting of the milk from the piercers mouth into the mouth of the pierced person , this acts as lubricant.

Even the rod point is dipped in butter to make it enter the mouth without resistance .

The inserting of the hooks is very painful , first the back is hit with the hand to losen it than the point inserted with both hands sometimes the assistant to pushes the hook and this has to be perfect as the person with the hooks on the back will pull a car or a tempo.

This was all shot late evening at Mahim beach but I think my Sion Koliwada pictures shot last night are quite scary, and I shot it in ample light .

I met this lady yesterday her wound has healed she is a good lady and most of the people working on the giuuters of Bandra are predominantly Tamils and devotees of Goddess Maryamma..

This segment will come once I finish the puja and the possession on the beach, the possession was delirious and scary too.

But I left the possession the moment Raja piercer told me he was going to begin the piercing.

Raja was assisted by his brother , I could not resist posting this picture out of turn...and I might call this lady and her contractor to come and see the pictures on my comp.

Pain is what I shoot as street photography, and incidentally these are workers of the streets..their life spent in gutters the women remove the silt and mud