Varanasi is a city that doesn’t ask to be photographed — it demands to be felt. In its crumbling ghats, sacred rituals, chaotic lanes, and quiet glances of strangers, Banaras offers not a spectacle, but an unfiltered truth. This project is a visual journey into the raw heart of India’s most ancient city — where life and death walk side by side, prayers rise with smoke, and moments of stillness hide within noise.

Banaras Unfiltered peels back the romanticism often attached to the city and instead embraces its imperfections, its contradictions, and its profound humanity. These images are not staged or polished. They are fragments of real life: a barber shaving a man by the roadside, a child sleeping on temple steps, a priest lighting an evening lamp, a body wrapped in cloth waiting by the Ganges.

This is not just a photo project — it is a record of presence. An attempt to see Banaras not as a postcard, but as a pulse.