CHURCH, INC. – God’s own people
Priests, nuns, cardinals. they really deserve to be shot.
Of course i mean with a camera.
Photo essay from the streets of Rome with a couple from Mexico for good measure.
Oh, your highness, a stylish red robe around your midriff will work wonders to conceal your girth…
Come to me. Come with gold. And give it to me…
Modesty? We’ll leave that to our female employees: we’ll force them to dress as if the middle ages never ended.
And poverty, too. This little nun spent about ten minutes deciding if and how to spend her one euro.
Follow me as i am your shepherd. No really, i am. Shepherds always dress like this…
He’s young, he’s lost, and he’s kinda cute. If i move in casually, nobody will realize what i’m thinking…
Handsome priest in this calendar by photographer Piero Pazzi. Is this really what Jesus had in mind?
What’s better than a handsome priest? A sexy nun. This is the discarded package of a chocolate drink mix very popular in Mexico. Photograph taken in Cancun.
This one book written five hundred years ago by Fray Diego de Landa, a friar hellbent on converting the Maya indians to christianity, made me laugh and cry. Laugh when he talks of bad ‘fishes’ (manatees, i think) that wallow in the water displaying large erections. Cry when he describes how they were systematically destroying books, calendars, traditions of the Mayas. Talk about a lose-lose situation. The Mayas are still there, so church obviously lost, but so did we all.
Sestet in black and white: four young french priests, two roman pigeons.
This will never do: your skirt is so short i can actually see a bit of ankle…
Godspeed. A bearded, pony tailed orthodox priest photographed unorthodoxically: half a second exposure as he walked briskly by talking on his cellphone.
Yes. Sometimes i just like to talk about and photograph things which i do not understand.
Pope you enjoyed. Hope.
Alessandro Ciapanna
So much for the vow of poverty. Yeah, really! Very nice series, though.
these people know no shame
thank you
I didn’t know italian people could (joke, mor or less) about religion. I absolutly liked the series. Enjoyd yes.
humor is what keeps us (partially) sane
thank you, bente!
I rather enjoy a Roman joking about Catholicism, but then again, I’m not Catholic. I like the first fat guy and the orthodox blurry guy, just don’t want to tell the fat guy that his outfit isn’t helping hide anything.
no, and, sausagelike fingers stuffing a huge gold ring give the fat guy’s true priorities away, anyway
thanks, ann
This God’s Fashion is awesomwe!
i find it irresistible
thanks, sandro
You’re fuuny!
you spell funny
Time to go to confession, perhaps?
Andrew (lapsed Baptist).
perhaps it is. thanks, andrew
alessandro (unbaptized)
Amaziing series. And Man!!! That sense of humour of yours is too good. Goes well along with your images.
always a kind word – thank you irfan
glad you enjoyed this. i did too
Brilliant & courageous to say what most think in such an artistically beautiful way. Funny as hell too. No pun intended. -amy
haha! thanks, amy.
sometimes i like to poke my lens into the oddest of things. just for the heck of it. pun intended – alessandro
Brilliant! Bunuel would be applauding.
I’d be flattered if he were, but a lot of other people got ticked off by this post…
Thank you
Brilliant collection, and good humour too
haha – thanks
“things which i do not understand”
You can say that again.
Haha! Thanks, Amigita2u!