Maybe it’s my goth-ish nature, the gloomy side of my personality, but the Semana Santa (or Holy Week) always had a great appeal in me, despite myself being fully agnostic. It’s a season of atonement, of introspection, of penitence, the …
Meanwhile, in Cuba
In the weeks before booking my flight to Havana I had a one simple question in my mind, the question that I (and many photographers) make before each trip or assignment, specially when that trip or assignment is a location …
Holy Week, the days before Resurrection
The cult of the dead is something very present in Catholicism, just take a close look to the huge amount of shrines and relics of saints found in many churches of the world, and certainly is something southern Europeans are …
Buddhism and pagodas
Although in Myanmar you can easily find Hindu temples or Muslim mosques the religion drives that part of Asia is Buddhism, being the chosen faith of nearly 90% of the Burmese people. And you can find it everywhere: from majestic …