Cyril Abad
A family in a burger king fast food closed to the Cabazon Dinosaurs Park. Cabazon, California, USA. April, 2017.
THE SNAKE CHURCH.Verlin drove 3 hours from Kentucky to attend Chris' mass in honour of his brother Mack who died 7 years earlier, the same day, from a snake bite during a mass. Verlin when he handles this huge rattlesnake seems to be somewhere else. He will explain to me that his mind, his soul is elsewhere, like the mist.
HOLY LAND EXPERIENCE. Orlando, Florida.5 times a week, at 4 pm from Tuesday to Saturday, a false Jesus wrings himself with pain on the cross while Roman soldiers whip him.The play that lasts nearly 75 min is the most realistic and violent event of the Holy Land.During the crucifixion, the sound of the hammer can be heard very much. In the public, many visitors raise their arms to heaven, cry and beg forgiveness..
THE SNAKE CHURCH.Chris during the service is very active, shouts, jumps, dances. He rests, sweating during a parishioner's testimony. western virginia, United states of America, 19/05/2019.
A young blonde woman wearing a pink dress walks in the street and passes under a red sign "Wings" in Ocean Beach, San Diego.
THE SNAKE CHURCH.Marylou and Ariel, two friends who grew up in this small mountain valley of the Appalachians, take a smoke break after the Chris's church service.They come to his masses every Sunday.
THE CROSS BIKE. OCEAN CITY.John lives in Berlin, just outside Ocean City, Maryland.Every day he nds time to walk around Ocean City with his funny bike "The Cross Bike". He tells me that he has a lot to do here, because this Maryland seaside resort is the kingdom of sin.
Cyril Abad is a French photographer based in France who has been professionally active for the past ten years.
After working as an advertising and fashion photographer, he's been focusing since 2012 on documentary projects dealing with man's place in society, often with a singular and offbeat twist. He collaborates on a regular basis with print magazines, notably through original and humorous reportages such as "Blackpool, the Brexit holidays" or "Orange is the new zoo".
In 2016 he started "IN GOD WE TRUST", a 3-year project on the singular forms of religion in the United States, which presents a dissonant vision of our contemporary societies. This project has been published in France and internationally on numerous occasions and exhibited in 2020 at the International Photography Biennial of Clermont-Ferrand and in 2019 at Visa Pour l'Image.
Based in: France
Website: www.cyrilabad.com
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Book: In God We Trust
