Description:RETURN is a collection of a decade of photography, poetry, and essays documenting Korea's cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs around death, the afterlife, and reincarnation. In an effort to heal the trauma of losing his mother at young age, as well as to release his own fear of death following a near death experience, author and photojournalist Chanho Park traveled to the settings of death across South Korea, photographing funeral sites, Confucian ancestral ceremonies, Buddhist cremation ceremonies, and Shamanic rituals. Through masterful artistry and striking black and white photographs, Park captures the energy and spirit of these rituals that honor the dead and those they leave behind. Punctuated by original personal essay and poetic reflections, RETURN chronicles the stories Park captured in his handwritten, personal notebooks during his decade of documenting Korean death and the images, myths, and rituals that surround it.This book is NOT available on Amazon or other mass market channels. Available directly from the publisher Alpha Sisters Publishing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Return: Korea's Rituals of Death, Spirits, and Ancestors. To get started finding Return: Korea's Rituals of Death, Spirits, and Ancestors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
161
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Alpha Sisters Publishing
Release
2022
ISBN
1733475656
Return: Korea's Rituals of Death, Spirits, and Ancestors
Description: RETURN is a collection of a decade of photography, poetry, and essays documenting Korea's cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs around death, the afterlife, and reincarnation. In an effort to heal the trauma of losing his mother at young age, as well as to release his own fear of death following a near death experience, author and photojournalist Chanho Park traveled to the settings of death across South Korea, photographing funeral sites, Confucian ancestral ceremonies, Buddhist cremation ceremonies, and Shamanic rituals. Through masterful artistry and striking black and white photographs, Park captures the energy and spirit of these rituals that honor the dead and those they leave behind. Punctuated by original personal essay and poetic reflections, RETURN chronicles the stories Park captured in his handwritten, personal notebooks during his decade of documenting Korean death and the images, myths, and rituals that surround it.This book is NOT available on Amazon or other mass market channels. Available directly from the publisher Alpha Sisters Publishing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Return: Korea's Rituals of Death, Spirits, and Ancestors. To get started finding Return: Korea's Rituals of Death, Spirits, and Ancestors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.