Offering in Silence

Photographer

Hungyi Chang

Category

Editorial Photography - Culture

Company

REDSKY

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2025

Country / Region:

Taiwan

In a quiet corner of a Taiwanese temple, an elderly woman prepares incense for worship. Her hands, worn by time, move with a rhythm shaped by decades of devotion. Behind her, a vivid temple door guardian looms—an eternal protector watching over a fleeting mortal moment. This image captures the spiritual duality of tradition: the enduring iconography of faith and the living, breathing ritual performed by the community’s elders. As modernization encroaches on daily rituals, scenes like this—once common—are becoming rare. It is a visual preservation of cultural reverence, aging devotion, and the quiet dignity embedded in faith.

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