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Manjari Sharma<\/a>\u2018s photographs of ancient mystical and spiritual Hindu figures are stunning. You can see some of them here at the Huffington Post<\/a>. \u00a0Some are very large and you will get a sense of this magnitude when you scroll through the images at the Post. \u00a0You can view them as a slideshow here<\/a>, if you click on the show\u2019s title, Darshan, on the left sidebar.<\/p>\n

Sharma, born in India, now works and lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she is\u00a0 exhibiting her photographs<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0at Champ Art beginning toady.<\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a> characterizes Sharma\u2019s art like this: \u201cthe painstaking progress, from casting to costume design to the final digital touches, bridges the space between art and spirituality, the present and the imagined.\u201d <\/em>
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