18th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
Prayer and the Lines

...I took a risk and hiddenly climbed the stairs up(to the female part of the mosque). Suddenly, a father with 2 children's came in: they started praying. Well, kids made their prayer very brief, while father kept it for quite a while. I was watching and thinking that he is probably covers in his prayers his sons, whole of his family, maybe a friends, or even me. I was stunned with this view of praying man and took couple of shoots while he was bending and raising, bending and raising over and over and over again...

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 07.2017
Date Uploaded: 10.2020
Photo Location: Ankara, Türkiye
Copyright: © Andrei Voronin