A Story Between Monastery and Rain

Photographer

Tea Chen

Category

Architecture Photography - Religious

Company

GEBIS

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2026

Country / Region:

Canada

Photographed at Yuecheng‑Guangming Monastery in Taiwan, this work centers on religious architecture—its eaves, tiles, corridors, and courtyards—and how the building receives rain. Years of collective effort and disciplined practice under Teacher Zhen‑Ru shaped a place that grew steadier and more mature through difficult conditions. In this series, rain functions as a revealing agent: it traces rooflines, breaks into sparks of light, and maps the monastery’s quiet order. The images stay with structure—proportions, surfaces, water paths—listening to how a sacred space breathes with the storm. What appears is resilience made ordinary: faith becoming visible through architecture, and architecture carrying the rhythm of practice.