Full Frame: Following the Virgen de El Cisne
A photographer joins an annual pilgrimage that mixes faith, tourism and commerce.
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I was an accidental pilgrim. In August, I went to southern Ecuador to photograph the pilgrimage of the "Virgin of El Cisne" — an annual religious pilgrimage that would be full of intentional pilgrims. It was perhaps my American upbringing, but pilgrimage seemed, to me, to be an oddity...
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