For the past 20 years, I've been drawn to explore cultural and religious celebrations, folklore and music. Here, you'll see pictures from the Ganesh Festival in India; the festival of Santa Barbara in Bahia, Brazil; ritual dance of the Orishas in Havana, Cuba; an underwater statue of Jesus and Mary in Italy; the wife of a Harlem preacher, Carl J. Graham,

doing the Holy Ghost dance; a snake possession ceremony in rural India; photos from Wigstock and the Mermaid Parade in New York; and a juxtaposition of a photo of the mudmen at the Mount Hagen festival of Papua New Guinea next to some New Yorkers dressed up as mudmen for the lower East Side Earth Celebrations parade.