A woman wearing a traditional "mantilla" dress takes part in an open-air mass to celebrate Madrid's patron saint La Almudena Virgin in Madrid, Spain, November 9, 2015. (Photo by Susana Vera/Reuters)
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill releases a white dove after a service marking the Holiday of Annunciation at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 7, 2023. In Christianity, Annunciation celebrates the revelation to the Virgin Mary that she would bear a son, Jesus. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)
A man dressed as a traditional character in the “Baile de Negras” dance poses for a picture on the feast day of the Virgin of the Candelaria (Candlemas) in the town of Diriomo, some 45 km from Managua, Nicaragua on February 2, 2017 Candlemas falls forty days after Christmas and is celebrated by Catholics as the presentation of Christ at the Temple. (Photo by Inti Ocon/AFP Photo)
A young Matachin dancer sits on a the side during the annual pilgrimage in honor of Mexico's patron saint the Virgin of Guadalupe in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, December 12, 2016. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
A pilgrim enters the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on their hands and knees to honour the Virgin Mary in Mexico City, Mexico on December 11, 2022. (Photo by Jorge Nunez/Zuma Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
Pilgrims ride their horses on their way to the shrine of El Rocio in Villamanrique, Spain, on Saturday, June 4, 2022, during the annual pilgrimage in which hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin del Rocio converge in and around the shrine. (Photo by Joan Mateu Parra/AP Photo)
Matachines dancers participate in a religious festival in Saltillo, Mexico, April 17, 2016. Matachines dancing is a masked dance introduced by Spanish missionaries, and has been adopted by cultures from Peru to northern Mexico. It is performed to show respect to Mother Mary or the Guadalupe Virgin, a saint, or to simply worship God. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)
Khuong Nguyen is an editorial and commercial photographer and designer based in Paris. Some of his clients include Wallpaper, Christian Louboutin and Virgin Radio. This work is from his Tronified series for Amusement Magazine.