LAURA EL-TANTAWY

PROJECTS: FERVENT SPIRITS

Jerusalem, Holy Land & India

Fervent Spirits is about faith. Believing in the power of the invisible.

The idea for the project started in the Holy Land in Jerusalem, inspired by a 60-year-old conflict that has cost so many lives and tormented generation upon generation. In the Old City, Muslims, Jews and Christians literally rub shoulders with each other but never seem to utter a word as they walk in separate paths. Not even making eye contact. Some say the 60-year-old conflict is a battle in the name of religion and it is from this concept that Fervent Spirits evolved, as a personal voyage by the photographer to observe, question and try to make sense of religion.