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Tag: religion
Individually, each image is a singular approach to depicting a red apple. Together, however, they address larger existential questions relating to consciousness, reality and truth
Growing up in the spiritual commune, the photographer travels to Vrindavan, India, to retrace and understand the roots of the religion
In a four-year project, titled A Sisterhood, Luongo follows the everyday joys and sorrows of women living in service of God
Travelling to the Nepalese Himalayas, Singh tells a story of faith, caste-based discrimination, and the search for new life
“Shared stories bring people together,” says Sophie Green who, over the course of two years,…
Alys Tomlinson’s Ex-Voto book is the culmination of a five-year journey across Catholic pilgrimage sites…
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“South Africa is a deeply religious country,” says Giya Makondo-Wills, whose work-in-progress, They Came From the Water While the World Watched, maps out the interplay between Christianity and ancestral religion in the region. With four trips to the country under her belt so far, the 23-year old has travelled as much into the past as in the present, tracing the indelible repercussions of 19th-century European migration as they resonate through South African culture today.
Makondo-Wills, who is British-South African, became interested in her African grandmother’s faith while shooting another project. “She’s very Orthodox Christian but she also still practises ancestral religion, and that’s a core part of who she is. She prays to a God and the gods,” the photographer explains.
This duality got her thinking about the intersections of belief systems and how they were brought into contact. How did Christianity become so influential? How does it co-exist with indigenous religions? Building on her interests in race and identity, these questions soon elicited many others, spawning a long-term project that has carried her from a BA to an MA at the University of South Wales.
The November issue of BJP takes you on a round the world trip with Journeys. From the markets of Lagos to the search for Jesus across the world, these are more than just trips; these journeys will alter your way of looking at the world.