BANARAS THROUGH A LENS
Explore this expedition
Explore Banaras beyond the postcard through its ghats, old galis, markets, food, weaving neighbourhoods, rituals, and everyday life.
Learn phone photography and videography through simple visual prompts, observation, framing, sound, and storytelling. No prior experience needed.
See the city through its contrasts, where faith and routine, life and death, chaos and stillness, the sacred and the everyday often exist side by side.
Spend time with local communities, artisans, weavers, vendors, and others who shape the city, learning through their work, routines, traditions, and lived knowledge.
Come together through daily visual reflections to discuss, observe, edit, and gradually shape your own interpretation of the Banaras you experienced.
- Arrival in Banaras
- Opening circle
- Old city walk
- Galis & markets
- Street food
- Evening Ganga Aarti
- Visual Reflection - 1
- Sunrise boat ride
- Walk along the ghats
- River life & rituals
- Phone photography & videography session
- Small-group city exploration
- Visual Reflection - 2
- Weaving neighbourhoods
- Artisans & craft
- Local food
- Old neighbourhoods
- Local stories
- Faith & traditions that continue to shape the city
- Visual Reflection - 3
- Engage with local communities
- Participate in everyday activities
- Learn through their work, routines & practices
- Experience Banaras through the people who live it
- Visual storytelling in small groups
- Visual Reflection - 4
- Final exploration
- Visual storytelling - 5
- Closing circle
- Farewell
Explore beyond the familiar ghats through old neighbourhoods, food, rituals, craft, and everyday life.
Learn to tell stronger visual stories using only your phone, with simple, practical guidance.
Explore the city through daily prompts that help you notice stories, contrasts, people, and moments.
Explore in intimate groups, follow different perspectives, and come back together to reflect and share.
Spend time with local communities and experience weaving, food, rituals, craft, and everyday practices.
Bring together what you capture across the journey into your own visual interpretation of Banaras.
Accommodation during the expedition.
Daily breakfast and selected meals.
Local transport within Banaras for scheduled experiences.
Sunrise boat ride on the Ganga.
Guided explorations across ghats, galis, neighbourhoods and markets.
Phone photography & videography sessions.
Daily visual prompts and reflection sessions.
Small-group storytelling activities.
Curated interactions with local communities, artisans and practitioners.
All scheduled workshops and experiences.
TEC facilitation throughout the expedition.
Travel to and from Banaras.
Airport / railway station transfers, unless specifically mentioned.
Meals outside those included in the itinerary.
Personal expenses, shopping and additional activities.
Camera or photography equipment.
Travel insurance.
Medical expenses.
Anything not specifically mentioned under What’s Included.