Generosity, grief, and the black anaconda: inside the world's biggest annual pilgrimage

• Photographer
  Jonny Pickup, United Kingdom
• Category
  Asia
• Studio
  Jonny Pickup
• Image Location
  Iraq

This photographic series documents the world’s largest annual pilgrimage: Arba’een. An event that commemorates the martyrdom of Hussein ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, who was killed by Yazīd on the 10th day of the month of Muharram. Millions move towards a small city in central Iraq in late October each year – to mourn a man who died almost 1,400 years ago.