WAITING FOR THE CANDYMEN OR SAN LAZARO, A POLITICAL MIRACEL


  • Photographer
    Kirstin Schmitt
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    SAILOR`S YARN
  • Date of Photograph
    17.12.2014
  • Technical Info
    ratio 3:2/color/Cuba

Cuba. 17.Deciembre. Ever year thousands of believers make a pilgrimage to a church, dedicated to San Lázaro (Babalu Ayé in the Afrocuban Santeria Religion) in a suburb of Havana. Devotees of Saint Lazarus are dressed in purple cloth or in a jute sack. Some walk barefooted many Kilometer to the church, or are crawling on bloody knees, towing heavy objects such as large rocks, cement blocks or sacred statues, to cause miracles or express thanking thankfulness for a miracle experience. The historic announcment of the rapprochement of the archenemies Cuba and USA on 17.12.2015 the “Day of Saitnt Lázaro”, was not a coincidence, but a well planned political staging: A new miracle!

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