Maika attended the Thaipusam festival held at the Batu Caves, near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and decided that, rather than documenting this festival in a traditional documentary style, she would try to fuse the festival's …

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::: The Travel Photographer :::: Maika Elan: Thaipusam Festival

Thaipusam is known as a very enigmatic festival – mysterious and frenzied. And from the few images I had seen, Thaipusam looked like a pilgrimage of a bygone era.

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Photo Essay: Here comes Thaipusam, by Maika Elan | Invisible Ph t …