Stillness Above the World
Photographer: Beth Wild
Beth Wild is a UK based freelance photographer, with a love of storytelling and travel. She has a Geography MA, has lived on a Hebridean island, been an Arctic expedition leader, worked both in the commercial and charity sectors, in conservation and for an educational gap year organisation which focused on deep cultural immersion. She has won numerous photography awards including National Geographic Traveller 2024 Photography Competition Portfolio Category Runner Up with 10 images of Varanasi, India.
Her work connects to the essence, soul and underlying energy of people and places. She is passionate about India, its cultural diversity, natural beauty and spirituality. For her, photography is about the experience, not merely the result and in India especially, it becomes a spiritual practice. She captures a contemporary India fully alive with ancient traditions and wisdom.
Stillness Above the World : Limited edition of 10 prints
Giclée Print ( 16.5” x 11”) : £300
Framed and Mounted : £350
If you wish to place and order (UK only) , please email john@illume.eco
In 2019 I travelled to truly awe inspiring Ladakh.
Here, on the rooftop of Thikse Monastery, one of the monks stands in quiet contemplation, gazing out over the vast Indus Valley. The call to prayer has been made, the Dungchen long horns echoing the invitation into the far distance. The daily rhythms of ritual and reverence, sending reverberations of sacred stillness out into the world.
I felt this palpably and especially intensely within the butter lamp house of the monastery. Hundreds of lamps lit as an offering of light and wisdom in the world, burning steadily to dispel ignorance. Such a powerful place.
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