Some results from a recent photography job at the baptism site of Jesus, at a narrow stretch of the Jordan river where orthodox Syrian, Coptic and Greek pilgrims came to celebrate their epiphany, with services carried out on both sides. I love how tartan and bagpipes have travelled all this way. Or perhaps they came from here originally?
Then I had a meeting with a man who'll be the subject of my next film project who has started up an icon painting school in Bethlehem. One of his best known works is an icon painted on the separation wall dividing Jerusalemites from West Bankers, called: 'Our Lady Who Brings Down Walls.'
An extract from the prayer goes:
'We beg you...to bring down this wall, the walls of our hearts, and all the walls that generate hatred, violence, fear and indifference between people and nations.'
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