Celia Peterson Filmmaker | Photographer

It’s the eternal toss up when you are a photographer between not getting any images and intruding on somebody else’s moment… afraid I chose intrusion today and try as I might to be inconspicuous that was also hard as the only woman amongst thousands of men. I shot as quickly as possible and felt honoured to be witnessing what was quite an emotional prayer for some of these men. A couple of characters were on such a high afterwards that they remained in prayer positions long after everything else had left and rubbish was being cleared around them.

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