One Mad Man Recognizes Another Mad Man

One Mad Man Recognizes Another Mad Man, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free."
Nikos Kazantzakis

I have met a lot of mad people , and my quest for mad people took me far and wide, mostly at Sufi shrines in India..madness has many forms the highly intense one , where all medication psychiatry has failed go to Dargahs expecting God to cure their loved ones , and so here it is called possession in Dargah parlance Hazri .

I went to Hussain Tekri Jaorah , difficult to shoot but I did and than to The Holy Shrine of Syed Meera Datar Unjha .. the most famous spiritual healing center for mad people .. I shot here but in a few hours ..

As a street photographer I shoot pain , visible invisible ... as a Malang I saw a lot of holistic healing at Zinda Shah Madar Makanpur...

I have seen weird cases out of respect I tried not to shoot some images as it would hurt the girls marriage proposals ,..

And strangely we have a saying Dil To Pagal Hai.. the Heart is Sheer Madness.

And this new series is actually old pictures I am bringig forward from the treasure chest at Flickr , tweaking via Aviary and re posting as new blog..

There was a guy where I stayed he was madness personified I shot him a lot , he was hung on booze and drugs he has finally been sent to a Mental Institution, he was a born actor.. life wasted completely..

I am thus compiling all the mad people I shot over the years ... in my street photography set...a new dimension to old blogs.. besides there is nothing to shoot .. I love the monsoon I hate shooting it watching people getting wet orgiastically is nothing short of Rain Porn..