Category: religion
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Between Fire and Silence: How Faith Evolves~
These two images were taken in China, in a Buddhist temple. I remember, during my time living there, asking a Buddhist friend when he typically went to the temple. His answer stayed with me ever since. He said, “I go when I want something, and when I am sick.” That struck me as fascinating, so…
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The Burning Ghats of Varanasi – A Dance of Life and Death
Varanasi is a place where the veil between life and death is remarkably thin. At the ghats, where the sacred Ganges meets the city’s heart, bodies burn every hour of the day, releasing souls into the cycle of rebirth. Witnessing this ancient ritual, where grief and reverence intertwine, is both surreal and grounding. The air…
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“Chasing the Winter Sun: A Timeless Connection to Light and Life”
images taken today in the Abrahamic Family House, in Abu Dhabi with the slogan: “Diverse in our Faiths.Common in our Humanity.Together in Peace.” The golden embrace of the sun is a profound gift that transcends time, connecting ancient civilizations to modern-day life. In my photographs, the sunlight interacts with architectural grandeur and human emotion, echoing…
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Daily Coffee Talk~68/365
Today I spent a larger part of the day driving around with my daughter from home to school to extra activities, home and school again. We have come to call Monday the ‘fun day’ partly sarcastically because of all the driving, and partly because we never know how it will unfold. On the last one…
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Future Unknown~ Xinjiang
Future unknown~ heartbreaking news coming from Xinjiang about China holding over a million Uighur muslims in re-education centers for the purpose of removing their #faith which they label as a virus. History keeps repeating itself and we humans never seem to learn. Their most recent tactic is breaking up families whose strength and cohesion they…
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The prayer
We might declare our allegiance to a religion or to a non-religion, but either way, there will be moments in our lives when we just feel the need to close our eyes, turn inwards and try desperately to connect to something bigger, greater and more knowing than we are. No matter how amazing and above…
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The beautiful enigma that is Lebanon
Part of working on a current project about Lebanon, I was caused to rediscover my home country. So during a period of 4 weeks, I travelled the small country from North to South and East to West and I managed to fall passionately in love with it all over again. Passion lives in Lebanon, it…
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Chab Chamreoun, social worker, inspiring Cambodian
Huge smile always on the ready, willingness, brightness, intelligence are a few of the qualities that emanate from Chab Chamreoun, also know as “James Brown” around the Cambodian Children’s Painting Project. He was studying for 8 years at a wat (Cambodian Temple) near Sihanoukville. There he studied and received a degree in social work. Despite…
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Phnom Penh- Day one- part 2- peace at last
After going through the wide range of emotions that places like the killing fields and S1 genocide museum cause, it was so delightful to see the other side of Cambodia’s history. The royal palace and the national museum, so much peace, so much beauty, so much spirituality, so much yellow and gold, so much silver…