Aboriginal people sit and story in the bush as they have done for millenia. Kimberley region, Western Australia 2000

Ancient temple of the Acropolis. Athens, Greece 1993

Flowers adorn an ancient goddess figure, the divine feminine, in Varanasi. India 2018

Down the Ganges river at Varanasi. India 2018

Women bathe and pray in the Ganges river at Varanasi. India 2018

Sadhus overlooking the burning ghats in Kathmandu. Nepal 2008

Burning ghats (for cremation) in Kathmandu. Nepal 2008

Balinese dancers and musicians perform the Ramayana. Ubud, Bali 2009

A Brahmin priest leads a Hindu ceremony in their village. Bali, Indonesia 2009

A Buddhist monk with his lacquer bowl walks the streets on his morning alms round. Burma / Myanmar 1995

Devotees pray before large Buddhas at the Shwe Dagon pagoda complex. Yangon, Burma/Myanmar 2010

Angkor Wat complex. Cambodia 1995

Pilgrams with prayer wheels at a Buddhist shrine in Tibet. China 2008

A Buddhist pilgram prays over incence at the birthplace of Gautama the Buddha. Lumbini, Nepal 2008

Borobudur temple. Java, Indonesia 2000

A statue of St Michael inside the chapel at Mont St Michel. France 2019

Church service on the beach, on Han, one of the Carteret atolls, off Bougainville, PNG 2009.

Mont St. Michel, France 2019

Jesus hanging in backstreets of Belfast. Northern Ireland 1993

Church signboard at night, Suva, Fiji 1999

A Melanesian Brother (Anglican order) and Catholic nuns pray for peace with MEF militants at their trench near the airport. Honiara, Solomon Islands 2000

Islamic students at a Sufi-influenced college read the Koran in a garden. Java, Indonesia 2008

Afghans pray at a mosque in Kabul. Afghanistan 1992

Turkish 'whirling dervishes' perform in Utrecht, Holland. They are Sufi sect of Islam who spin into trance dances as a route to God. 1998

Muslim girls learning the Koran. Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2008

Women garden in the forecourt at Samarkand. Uzbekistan 1992

A convert to Islam prays outside, in his highland village. Chimbu, Papua New Guinea (PNG) 2009

Highlands shaman (Kleva / Sanguma) with nasal pig tusk and carving that has been traded up from the coast, Nduga territory, West Papua / Indonesia 1995

'Graded' men perform the Rom dance to honour ancestral spirits. Ambrym island 2005

Sacred masks and figures representing ancestral spirits in a men's house on the Sepik river. Papua New Guinea (PNG) 2005

Papuan girls dance and celebrate during the annual Hiri Moale festival in Port Moresby, PNG, 2003

Statue of Duke Kanahamoku, surfing legend, at dusk on Waikiki beach. Honolulu, Hawaii 2011

Ancient Moai statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) 2005