Arts & Culture

Between Heaven and Earth

Cristina Garcia Rodero explores the contrast of emerging rituals and ancient religions practiced around the world

Cristina Garcia Rodero

Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth The Trinity. Lumbier, Spain. 1980. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth The confession. Pilgrimage of Nuestra Senora de los Milagros de Saavedra. Galicia, Spain. 1980. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Georgia. 1995. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth The Colacho. Castrillo de Murcia, Spain.1975. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Maria Lionza cult. A barbaric spirit. Sorte mountain, Yaracuy state, Venezuela. 2002. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Burial. Kakheti, Georigia.1995. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Burial. Kakheti, Georgia. 1995. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Penitent leaning in front of the Virgin of Fatima. Fátima, Portugal. 1990. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth The Holy Mount of Grabarka (Holy Hill of Grabarka) is a sanctuary for orthodox christians in Poland. Near the town of Siematycze, Poland. 1999. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Heads of wax. Pilgrimage of Santo Cristo de la Agonia de Xende. Galicia, Spain. 1977. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Offering to Yemanja. Brazil. 2008. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Saint Francis of Assisi's cave, Artibonite region, Haiti. 2001. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Bord de Mer de Limonade. Haiti. 2001. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Psychiatric hospital. Tbilisi, Georgia.1995. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Refugee camp. Stenkovac, Macedonia. 1999. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Kukes, Albania. 1999. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Madrid, Spain. 1994. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero | Between Heaven and Earth Old cinema studios used for American movies, today a theme park also used for advertising shootings. Almeria, Spain. 1991. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos

“I want to speak about the human being, the dualities and contradictions of life, the old traditions and the new rituals, the natural and the supernatural, religious and pagan, pain and pleasure, humans and gods, spirit and body, water and earth, life and death.” – Cristina Garcia Rodero.

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