15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The American Experience
philippines portrait

On Good Friday in the Philippines, men will whip their backs until they’re bloody and allow themselves to be crucified. It’s a decades-old practice that takes place predominantly in Pampanga province by devout Catholics as a penance.

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Date Taken: 04.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2017
Photo Location: Philippines
Copyright: © Kasia Idzkowska