Sunday, 20 July 2008

World Youth Day - A photographic essay

And so, St Mary's Cathedral became the centre of Sydney for a week ...


For believers and non-believers


And for those with a guilty conscience and a need to confess



For a week they walked the patient streets of Sydney



The usual suspects ...



Even Papua New Guineans...



They greeted nuns



They read the bible



But meanwhile in Taylor Square ...



Sydney wasn't going to disappoint


Other types of the converted had another point to make


With an entirely different view


And the media lapped it up



But they also lapped up the Vigil action


Who's the light of the world now, huh?!



He has some pretty good ideas


Next time it will be in Madrid


So farewell young pilgrims



We'll be right where you left us

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

fantastic. thanks for the alternative perspective to what the media have been throwing at us!

Benito Di Fonzo said...

what a stroke of luck that the smoking section of the Strawberry Hills Hotel was the best vantage point Nic! Were they serving consecrated wine for the believers? Now that's the fine standard of Australian embedded journalism we like to encourage...