Face to Faith - Mount Kailash - Tibet

Face to Faith | Mount Kailash | Tibet portrays this extraordinary place and the people to whom it holds such great significance in large, quiet images, seen from some distance, without any major, staging interventions. I wanted to encounter the pilgrims and Mount Kailash, which is of such central importance to them, with the same respect. The result is a a series of iconic portraits and landscape pictures that describe this place as a spiritual space in which people subordinate their own selves to a higher, non-human entity, hoping to attain catharsis from its spiritual force center. The landscape photographs serve as metaphors of this encounter between the human and the divine. Towards the top they transcend into pure nature. In the images, Mount Kailash seems to dissolve into light, fog, haze and clouds in the very place where the mountain touches the heavens, that is, precisely at this mystical site that some pilgrims believe to be the seat of their gods and others consider the source of the entire universe or, indeed, the navel of the world.