Cristina Garcia Rodero is a Spanish born photographer who originally began her art career as a painter, before switching her medium of choice to photography. Garcia Rodero became a member of Magnum in 2009 after working for the photography agency Vu for over fifteen years. Garcia Rodero's subjects of choice are generally religious and traditional practices, focused primarily in Spain and throughout the Mediterranean. This photo depicts the blending of Catholic and Voodoo religious practices on the island of Haiti. Here women meet Miracle Calvary to ask for divine intercession. With respect to composition, Garcia Rodero frames the crowd through the use of the intersecting lines that are composed by the women's arms.
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