Portraits of Buddhist monks, priests and nuns
A series of images capturing monks, priests and nuns praying, meditating and making offerings. They are part of a larger series of images taken in Cambodia around the Siem Reap area.
Buddhist monks pray twice a day: early morning when they meditate and chant, and late afternoon when they pray and meditate.
Buddhist nuns will pray very early in the morning; that session is then followed by listening to a monk and sometimes a priest preaching. On Buddha days, nuns will gather in large numbers at a local monastery to pray and give offerings.
All these images were taken in Cambodia, essentially around the Siem Reap area.
Many of these photographs were taken during the early morning prayer at Wat Lolei, where nuns light candles and incense before dawn.
