Photo Essay: Uncovering Sacred Spaces Around The World

A print letter exploring a worlds skinny places where typical meets a spiritual.

I am not a believer. And yet, as I approach Jerusalems Western Wall as well as strech out to touch it, my senses tingle. The millions which have prayed here as well as poured out their emotions have cumulatively left something.

As I travel a very old streets of a city, there is no denying which something monumental has happened here as well as a power of those moments lives on. It is a special place, a sacred space, as well as there have been many worldwide.

Some medium as well as simple, others have been overwhelming in scale as well as grandeur, but all have a commonality. They have been noted by human spirits which have left before. As a very old Celts called said, they have been a skinny places where a dividing line between a devout as well as typical comes closer.

If nothing else, they have been stopping places where group as well as women have been given pause to wonder about what lies beyond a mundane rituals, a grief, trials as well as dullness of a day-to-day life.

This is partial of an exhibition series photographed over 10 years in fifteen countries.

Machu Picchu

1.Machu Picchu, Peru.

Taj Mahal, India

2. Reflection of a Taj Mahal, India.

Rastafari Jamaica

3. Rastafari partaking a sacramental, Jamaica.

Istanbul

4.Dervishes behaving a Sema, Istanbul.

Jerusalem

5. The Church of a Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Varanasi India

6. Assi Ghat, Varanasi India, where a believers come to wash as well as freshen themselves.

Latvia

7. Country courtyard, Latvia.

Aerquipa, Peru

8.Holy way in Aerquipa, Peru.

Varanasi

9.Burning Ghats on a banks of a Ganges in Varanasi.

Indian Himalayas

10. Prayer flags, Indian Himalayas.

Cambodia

11. Bayon Temple, Cambodia.

Cambodia

12.The church of Angor Wat, Cambodia.

Jerusalem

13. Western Wall, Jerusalem.


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