Words + Photos by
Rae Wiltshire
Purple, pink, green and orange filled the air, enclosing the huge crowds of people within a haze of colours; you can’t see them but you can hear them, their joy and excitement evident in their voices. The haze is only momentary. Before you know it, some particularly adventurous celebrant throws water into it, dissolving the colours.
It’s Phagwah Day in Guyana, a true the “festival of colours” as different races of Guyanese turned out across the
