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Gui Christ wanted to photograph a proud, young generation representing African deities and mythological tales.

In 2006, he left India after death threats from Hindu hardline groups over his depictions of deities.

The festival honours the divine love of Hindu deities Radha and Krishna, and boisterous celebrations are held in the northern Indian cities of Mathura and Vrindavan, believed to be their birthplace.

In the Sundarbans, superstition about angering water deities made it hard to get people to fence their ponds.

Lesser biographies pick sides; Mangold trusts us to find our own path through the mire, while noting the particular risk of being a wunderkind hoisted up into a deity.