It happened in Allahabad India on 24th January 2001
I waited for 144 years for this day to fill 28 million people through my eye-piece. The day when such a mass of pilgrims of all ages gather for a common purpose and destiny has intrigued me for as long as I knew. I had to witness this flow this movement of the largest number of human beings in the history of mankind ever to assemble on one spot with the resolution to take a bath in the holy waters of the Ganges River.
Driven by an enormous religious power there was absolutely nothing that could have stopped these pilgrims from fulfilling their vows.
The only way to stop the lava-like flows of people was to take a picture.
“The day, when such a mass of pilgrims of all ages gather for a common purpose and destiny, has intrigued me for as long as I knew,” says photographer Hannes Schmid. “Driven by an enormous religious power, there was absolutely nothing that could have stopped these pilgrims from fulfilling their vows.” – Hannes Schmid, 2001
