THAIPUSAM : Pain and Devotion

The Experience:

  

It's early Sunday morning,February 8th 2009. With camera in hand, I walk toward the market place, the empowering smell of burning incense and increasing sound of the rhythmic drumming and chanting raises my anticipation to witness Thaipusam in Penang, Malaysia for the first time.  As I approach the devotee, his supporters make a clear path for me to observe and record his pain and devotion.

  

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Mortification of the Flesh, Thaipusam 2009

Mortification of the flesh