Ganges River by Sara Hylton, 2026
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““No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the​ same river and he’s not the same man,” Heraclitus, the Greek​ philosopher, wrote. I spent many years traveling along the​ Ganges, witnessing the river change as much as I did. When​ I first stepped into its holy waters in the fall of 2010, I was consumed​ by the amorphous grief of my father’s sudden death.​ I sought answers to the unanswerable. A decade later, when​ I sprinkled its frigid, pristine waters on my head in the Indian​ Himalayas, I hadn’t known it would be my final visit. India had​ transformed, as had I. I was no longer welcome there, blacklisted​ by the Indian government. As the river had first taught​ me years earlier, I was once again being asked to surrender​ to life’s current…”

Sara Hylton is an award-winning Canadian freelance photographer recognised for her compassionate and intimate approach to environmental and human rights issues. Hylton is a graduate from the International Center of Photography and holds an MA from Kings College London (International Conflict Studies). Her work focuses on issues around gender, Indigenous people, and the environment with clients including National Geographic Magazine, TIME Magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, Vogue Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, Bloomberg News, and the Financial Times Magazine among others.

Hylton is a National Geographic Explorer, and has received multiple grants from National Geographic Society, Magnum Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Hillman Foundation, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the International Reporting Project. In 2018, she was awarded a National Magazine Award for her work on missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Hylton’s work has been recognized by the Magenta Foundation, American Photo, the Lucie Foundation, the Alfred Fried Photography Award, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, PH Museum, and Santa Fe Portrait Awards, among others.

Design Direction by Luminosity Lab

7 × 8.5” vertical
softcover, offset
64 pages, 36 plates
Printed in Italy
First edition, Limited to 350 copies