Where Stone Still Prays

• Prize
  Bronze in Press/Feature Story
• Photographer
  Gabi Steiner, Austria
• Date of Photograph
  02/2025
• Website
  https://www.gabisteiner.at
• Instagram
  @gabisteinerphoto

Where Stone Still Prays explores the spiritual world of Lalibela, Ethiopia, where faith is not confined to ritual, but embedded in everyday life and carved into ancient rock.

Within the centuries-old rock-hewn churches, pilgrims, priests, and worshippers move through darkness and light in quiet devotion.

The series reflects a timeless atmosphere in which sacred architecture and human presence become inseparable — a place where spirituality is lived with profound stillness, and prayer continues to echo through the stone itself.