The Silent Shrine

Photographer

Jiasiou Wu

Category

Architecture Photography - Religious

Company

Jianran light

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2025

Country / Region:

Taiwan

A golden Buddha rests atop a crumbling temple, surrounded by cracked tiles and creeping vegetation. This forgotten sanctuary in rural Taiwan contrasts sacred permanence with temporal decay. The deity watches in silence, unmoved, while the world around it falls away. It is both presence and absence—faith lingering in form, but hollow in spirit.

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