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Pepita Seth is a British-born writer and photographer, known for her accounts of the temple arts and rituals of Kerala and her photographs of the widely celebrated captive elephant, Guruvayur Keshavan.
Dec 21, 2021 · Pepita Seth, the British-born writer and photographer, has spent 40 years of her life lovingly documenting with rigour, and in meticulous detail, the “powerful universe” of the Guruvayur temple and that of the families that perform the Theyyam rituals in Kerala through her words, images and extensive lectures on the subject in India, the US ...
Over the past fifty years Pepita Seth has devoted her life to the exploration of the closed worlds of the Guruvayur Temple and Theyyam Rituals in Kerala. She has undertaken her work with remarkable dedication and stamina in extraordinarily demanding circumstances, whether living with Theyyam community or photographing rituals of the Theyyam and ...
Mar 8, 2024 · Armed with a camera, notebook and an insatiable desire to understand Theyyam in all its complexities, Seth throws light on this ancient form of worship. William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives, published...
- Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, 859-860, Mount Road, Chennai, 600002, Tamil Nadu
Nov 23, 2009 · Pepita, care of…. London-born Pepita Seth is at home in the temple universe of Guruvayur. The author lovingly records everything, and not with the clinical eye of an academic.
- Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, 859-860, Mount Road, Chennai, 600002, Tamil Nadu
Pepita Seth is a British-born writer and photographer who has lived in Kerala, India, since 1972. She has documented the rituals, traditions and temples of Kerala, especially the Theyyam and Guruvayur Temple, in books and exhibitions.
Pepita Seth has spent four decades documenting Kerala’s Hindu rituals, taking seven years to chronicle the complexities of Guruvayur, Kerala’s most famous temple, and producing Heaven on Earth: The Universe of Kerala’s Guruvayur Temple.
