PORTRAIT OF AN EXORCIST


  • Photographer
    JAVIER SÁNCHEZ-MONGE ESCARDÓ
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    PERIODISTAS EN ESPAÑOL
  • Date of Photograph
    2013-07-11
  • Technical Info
    60/1.8/400

A FAMILY BELONGING TO THE YI ETHNIC MINORITY IN SICHUAN, CHINA, HAD CALLED A BIMO (YI NAME FOR AN EXORCIST AND SHAMAN) TO EXORCISE THEIR HOME AFTER THEY PERCEIVED WHAT THEY CALLED EVIL SPIRIT ACTIVITY. THE BIMO REMAINED AT THE HOME FOR THREE DAYS, PERFORMED RITUALS AND SACRIFICED DIFFERENT ANIMALS, CLAIMING AT THE END THAT THE SUPERNATURAL ACTIVITIES HAD CEASED. BEFORE THE RITUALS WERE PERFORMED I WAS OFFERED TO PORTRAY THE YI BIMO AT A NEARBY SMALL GUESTHOUSE, DISGUISHED IN HIS TRADITIONAL SHAMANISTIC CLOTHES. THE YI’S REPRESENT AN EIGHT MILLION INDIVIDUALS ETHNIC GROUP WHICH OWNED SLAVES UNTIL 1949 AND HAVE THEIR OWN SHAMANISTIC RELIGION, WHICH FAILED TO ACQUIRE AN OFFICIALY RECOGNIZED STATUS.

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