ENTRY DESCRIPTION

SICHUAN, CHINA.
The image depicts a Bimo, which represents an exorcist belonging to the Yi ethnic minority and who had been called to exorcise a home, where he stayed for three days performing animal sacrifices and rituals until he perceived it had been cleansed.
The Yi’s represent an eight million individuals ethnic group which owned slaves until 1949, owning their own Shamanistic religion which failed to acquire an official recognized status.

AUTHOR
My name is Javier Sanchez-Monge Escardo .I was born in Madrid in 1965.Education: Degree in International business management at the Schiller International University Germany (Heidleberg), 3 years of Biology studies at the University of Alcala de Henares and a degree in Philosophy, followed by a PHD still to be finished. Several advanced photography courses, video and editing. Can speak and write in different languages. Constantly I have been travelling around the world, photographing and living in foreign cultures.

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