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This project documents, through photography, Christian Holy Week and Easter around the world. Each year, I travel to a different country and do my best to capture definitive imagery. So far I've been to Guatemala, the Philippines, Spain, Haiti, Italy, Greece, Ethiopia, Colombia and Armenia. The first year, in 2003, I innocently photographed Good Friday processions here in New York not knowing it might be my life's work. In addition, I've been to Jerusalem, Isreael and Oberammergau, Germany. Jerusalem for obvious reasons and Oberammergau for their Passionsspeile. The images are sequenced to compare and contrast traditions of different locations progressing through the liturgical Holy Week. This edit is from two years ago; a newer exist in print on my desk. I continue to photograph on film and print in a traditional darkroom myself under the tutelage of master printers Chuck Kelton and Brian Young. I assist both of them at the International Center of Photography. Over the next few years I hope to visit a handful more countries. The goal is to produce a photobook. {ctx./next} |
| Edward Cheng is a New York based photographer and freelance computer programmer. He is currently working on long term projects documenting through photos Christian Holy Weeks and Easters around the world; Dia De Los Muertos in Mexico and Eldridge Street in the Lower East Side of New York. |