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He never "Fell in love" with a dictator, paid a prostitute, stole Top Secret documents, or inspired a resurrection against the US government.
24 / 100 : The Savior
I've been having a crazy month.
The crazy good kind of crazy, don't get me wrong hey!
I started a new project that next week will finally be unveiled and shown at a series of events and that I really can't hold in my computer anymore, gotta get those photos out before I get obsessed with them!
This new project took over everything else and so, after a month of "missing in action" status, the other day I finally had the time to go out and shoot some strangers!
And with that I mean "go out and be scorched by the unbelievably and ridiculous temperature that the roman summer brings with itself AND shoot some strangers" …
Maybe it was the month of absence from this lovely activity, maybe it was the fact that a sweaty guy asking to take your photo is not the first person you wanna meet in the streets, maybe it was the fact that standing there to get your picture taken makes you even sweatier BUT for the first time in a year or so, the other day a lot of people said "No" to me asking if I could take their portrait.
With the first two people, I didn't really mind and kept going on, but after the 5th person saying No, it kinda started getting to me.
What was I doing wrong? Why were people saying No so easily? What was the problem? Was it something depending on me or not?
If I learned anything at all, is that no matter what happens you DON'T HAVE TO OBSESS YOURSELF WITH SUCH QUESTIONS. But needless to say, the other day I did :)
A good half an hour of obsession and disappointment later, this girl popped out at the end of the street. Freckles, red hair, green eyes. By simply being there, she managed to shut the hell out of my doubts and my attention, out of the blue, was all focused on her.
Approached her, asked her if I could take her portrait and she… obviously kindly agreed.
I shot one frame. One was enough, I knew already this would have been a great one!
Gave her my card, she left and from that moment on, for the following two hours and more, all I got was a long streak of Yes.
She saved me!
Thank you, stranger!
[This picture is #24 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page ]
Camera Info: Nikon D700 | 85mm (ƒ/1.8D) @ 85mm | ƒ/2.8 | ISO 280 | 1/180 s — Camera Handheld
Haghpat monastery complex was founded in the X century.
The monastery has a complex plan. It consists of several buildings, some of which are connected by covered galleries like this one, called "The Savior's Passage", which connects the library depository and the St. N'shan church. It was also used as the monastery academy. The gallery extends around the east end of the church and opens into the courtyard with a view to the mountains and village in the distance.
Haghpat monastery, Armenia, 2011
"This is the glorious day on which Christ himself, the savior of the world, appeared;
the prophets foretold him, the angels worshiped him; the Magi saw his star and rejoiced to lay their treasures at his feet."
- from a Matins responsory for the feast of the Epiphany (6 Jan).
Fresco in the nave of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Alexandra Savior performing live at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday August 10th, 2016.
Walking the streets of Trinidad, Cuba, before sunrise is always an adventure. On this morning, I came upon this open doorway revealing portraits of revolutionaries, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, beneath a portrait of Jesus Christ. iPhone 6+ native camera, SnapSeed.
A children crying in her mothers arm during Ashura procession. Perhaps he was scared seeing the sea of people. But in time he will be one of them. One day he will lead the processions. He will bleed himself in the memory of his Hossain.
Taken at Hossaini Dalan,Dhaka
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The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (Russian: Храм Спаса на Крови) Khram Spasa na Krovi is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called the Church on Spilt Blood and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ (Russian: Собор Воскресения Христова), its official name.
"The preferred Russian name for this great church is [Храм Спаса на Kрови] Khram Spasa na Krovi, but each English-language tourist publication seems to list it under a different name. The moniker of "Spilled Blood" is most popular in preference to the likes of the Church of the Resurrection, Church of our Savior on the Blood, Cathedral of the Ascension, Resurrection of the Christ, or Assumption, Church of the Redeemer, or any permutation of the above." [1]
This Church was built on the site where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated and was dedicated in his memory. It should not to be confused with the Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land, located in the city of Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II (1868-1918) and several members of his family and household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution.
Construction and features
Construction began in 1883 under Alexander III, as a memorial to his father, Alexander II. Work progressed slowly and was finally completed during the reign of Nicholas II in 1907. Funding was provided by the Imperial family with the support of many private donors.
The Church is prominently situated along the Griboedov Canal. The embankment at that point runs along either side of a canal. On March 13, 1881 (Julian date: March 1), as Tsar Alexander's carriage passed along the embankment, a grenade thrown by an anarchist conspirator exploded. The tsar, shaken but unhurt, got out of the carriage and started to remonstrate with the presumed culprit. Another conspirator took the chance to explode another bomb, killing himself and mortally wounding the tsar. The tsar, bleeding heavily, was taken back to the Winter Palace where he died a few hours later.
Detail of the richly decorated façade and onion domes
A temporary shrine was erected on the site of the attack while the project for a more permanent memorial was undertaken. It was decided that the section of the street where the assassination took place was to be enclosed within the walls of a church. That section of the embankment was therefore extended out into the canal to allow the shrine to fit comfortably within the building and to provide space on the exterior wall for a memorial marking the spot where the assassination took place. Inside, an elaborate shrine was constructed on the exact place of Alexander's death, garnished with topaz, lazurite and other semi-precious stones. Amid such rich decoration, the simple cobblestones on which the tsar's blood was spilled and which are exposed in the floor of the shrine provide a striking contrast.
Architecturally, the Cathedral differs from St. Petersburg's other structures. The city's architecture is predominantly Baroque and Neoclassical, but the Savior on Blood harks back to medieval Russian architecture in the spirit of romantic nationalism. It intentionally resembles the 17th-century Yaroslavl churches and the celebrated St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.
The Church contains over 7500 square metres of mosaics—according to its restorers, more than any other church in the world. This record may be surpassed by the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, which houses 7700 square meters of mosaics. The interior was designed by some of the most celebrated Russian artists of the day—including Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov and Mikhail Vrubel — but the church's chief architect, Alfred Alexandrovich Parland, was relatively little-known (and Russian, despite his name). Perhaps not surprisingly, the Church's construction ran well over budget, having been estimated at 3.6 million roubles but ending up costing over 4.6 million. The walls and ceilings inside the Church are completely covered in intricately detailed mosaics — the main pictures being biblical scenes or figures — but with very fine patterned borders setting off each picture.
Russian Revolution of 1917
In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the church was ransacked and looted, badly damaging its interior. The Soviet government closed the church in the early 1930s. During the Second World War when many people were starving due to the Siege of Leningrad by hostile Nazi German military forces, the church was used as a temporary storage site for the corpses of those who died both in combat and of starvation and illness. It suffered significant damage. After the war, it was used as a warehouse for vegetables, leading to the sardonic name of Savior on Potatoes.
Modern times
In July 1970, management of the Church passed to Saint Isaac's Cathedral (then used as a highly profitable museum) and proceeds from the Cathedral were funneled back into restoring the Church. It was reopened in August 1997, after 27 years of restoration, but has not been reconsecrated and does not function as a full-time place of worship; it is a Museum of Mosaic. Even before the Revolution it never functioned as a public place of worship; having been dedicated exclusively to the memory of the assassinated tsar, the only services served in it were panikhidas (memorial services). The Church is now one of the main tourist attractions in St. Petersburg.
The real brave hearts and heros of Chadar Trek (Zanskar Valley). As per a legend, people from Zanskar valley are blessed by a Saint to be safe while travelling in Zanskar valley.
Zanskar Valley, Leh.
On the Volga River passing Uglich, Russia. The churches are "St. Dinitry on the Blood"' and "Our Savior's Transfiguration".
Inside The Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia.
This marvelous Russian-style church was built on the spot where Emperor Alexander II was assassinated in March 1881. After assuming power in 1855 in the wake of Russia’s disastrous defeat in the Crimean war against Britain, France and Turkey, Alexander II initiated a number of reforms. In 1861 he freed the Russian serfs (peasants, who were almost enslaved to their owners) from their ties to their masters and undertook a rigorous program of military, judicial and urban reforms, never before attempted in Russia. However, during the second half of his reign Alexander II grew wary of the dangers of his system of reforms, having only barely survived a series of attempts on his life, including an explosion in the Winter Palace and the derailment of a train. Alexander II was finally assassinated in 1881 by a group of revolutionaries, who threw a bomb at his royal carriage.
The decision was taken to build a church on the spot where the Emperor was mortally wounded. The church was built between 1883 and 1907 and was officially called the Resurrection of Christ Church (a.k.a. The Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood ). The construction of the church was almost entirely funded by the Imperial family and thousands of private donators. Both the interior and exterior of the church is decorated with incredibly detailed mosaics, designed and created by the most prominent Russian artists of the day (V.M. Vasnetsov, M.V. Nesterov and M.A. Vrubel). Interestingly, despite the church’s very obviously Russian aspect, its principle architect, A. Parland, was not even Russian by birth.