QUITO,
Ecuador, 16 February 2003 (BWNS) -- Spanish photographer Francisco
Gonzalez was waiting for the perfect moment when he could capture secrets
revealed to him in just seconds. That moment came as the sun shone its soft
rays over the Lotus Temple in New Delhi.
The resulting image (see
Photographs) is one of the photographs in an exhibition currently on tour in
Ecuador.
Called "Architects of
Unity" (Arquitectos de Unidad), the exhibition features Baha'i Houses of
Worship throughout the world.
Photographing such subjects is in
contrast to covering national and international events for such major Spanish
newspapers as El Pais, El Mundo and Tiempo. However, it has been a project Mr.
Gonzalez has dreamed of for many years.
"For me photography is the
best way to express and convey my feelings to people," said Mr. Gonzales,
who lives in Cordoba.
He said it was his greatest
aspiration to connect the hearts of people with the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh
with the help of his camera. A photographer of more than 20 years experience,
Mr. Gonzalez, 42, said that on his visits to the temples, he met people coming
from all kinds of ethnic and religious background.
"At the temple in the United
States for example I met a lady who explained to me that although she did not
believe in God, she had been visiting the temple for 30 years because she felt
that in the silence of the moments she spent there she discovered some sort of
indescribable harmony, something unique she had never experienced anywhere else
in the world," he said.
