Marco is a photoreporter, travels in Asia with inseparable Hasselblad. Buddhist monks images, their symbols, sacred places & moments of prayer are the subjects of his projects

The quality of the water changes everything. And what I used is a snow collected five years ago on plum blossoms, when I was in the temple of the Sacred Volute Lens of the Funerary Incense. From each flower I made snow fall into a crystal vase, engraved with spiritual images, to then let it settle for five years, deeply buried under the ground. – Cao Xueqin