Photographer Showcases the Entrancing Beauty of ‘Sacred’ Sites
This guy has amazing skills to go with his travels and gear.
For years photographer Chris Rainier has been captivated with the process of exploring the meaning of ‘sacredness’ in a world filled with numerous religions, identities, and increasing consumerism. For the past four decades he has traversed the vast stretches of the earth in search of sacred sites and landscapes and recently has compiled the fruits of his many journeys into a photo series and upcoming book titled Sacred.
Rainier’s work is filled with hauntingly beautiful yet diverse scenes of age-worn structures, dazzling natural wonders, and intimate shots of communities from around the globe. This decades-long process of unfolding the mystique of “sacredness” has also afforded the documentary photographer memorable epiphanies and reflections,
“As a photographer, I look at the world with a particular lens: the lens of the visual medium […] The world as I have discovered it in all the years of my travels is not monolithic. Rather, all cultures are born of multiple ways of being, thinking, seeing, and of defining what is ‘sacred’. I have journeyed and explored to try to understand these different ways of looking at our remarkable world and to discover what is sacred to me.” Rainier says, speaking to PetaPixel.
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