Hidden world

For more than twenty years volunteers from the organization “Hidden World” have been helping physically and intellectually challenged persons from psychoneurological institutions. One of their most important activities is the yearly summer camp in the country, where people deprived of family can feel at home. I was invited to the camp during the summer of 2019. It made me happy to be in a place where there was a unity of spirit, without any difference between “the normal people” and “the others”.  Everyone followed one rule, the law of love, without distinctions or boundaries, and barriers to communication were removed. I felt that the barriers that exist between us are nothing more than generally accepted categories devised by society. So as a photographer I was moved to depict the interior beauty of each person I met, the beauty that shines forth from the interior to transform the exterior. Connecting one person to another, the Hidden World is the divinely created bridge over the abyss of loneliness, a bridge available to everyone. It is only necessary to have the desire to take the first step toward encounter