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Via the milieu of creating “A New Yorker’s Hajj”, the religious culture surrounding my upbringing is further contextualized.
My mother, born in Georgetown, Guyana was raised on Hinduism by her grandmother.
As a teenager in the early 90s, she followed Catholic beliefs after moving to the Bronx with her parents.
Meanwhile, my father grew up with a household of devout muslims in Berbice, Guyana.
Since migrating, both have lost ties with their spiritual paths, but try to keep faith in the recalled knowledge.
To understand more of my father’s familial side, I embarked on the prophetic Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, better known as the Hajj.
Navigating bearings in unfamiliar lands, whether physical or mental. The iterations of pressing the shutter, experiencing scenes firsthand, give verity to my incertitude with religion.