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Silver 2026 People / Culture

Weight of Devotion

  • Photographer
    Zeev Kurlianchick
  • Prize
    Silver in People / Culture

During Semana Santa in southern Spain, brotherhoods carry massive pasos through narrow streets, transforming faith into a physical burden. This series explores the fragile boundary between costaleros, penitents, spectators and the photographer. Through endurance, pain, pride and prayer, individual experiences merge into a shared ritual. In black and white, the procession emerges not as a spectacle, but as a collective expression of devotion where the distinction between participant, observer and witness gradually disappears.

Zeev is a documentary photographer exploring moments of social, cultural, and personal transition. Working primarily in black and white, he focuses on the relationship between people, place, and tradition, capturing quiet tensions and unexpected juxtapositions within everyday life.

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