Community Photography - Sunday Afternoon Church Service

Genre: Community Photography

Location: Free Church of Tonga - Haveluloto, Tongatapu

This image was taken during the Sunday afternoon service in Tonga.

Form:

- Lines on the tiles, the chairs, the two boys shirts and the windows

- The patterns on the windows

- Repetition of Red and Blue in the windows

- Depth of field

Content:

The idea of this image is to show that as a community, they gather together every Sunday and spend there Sunday together as a community at church for that church service as the Preacher preaches. In the Kingdom of Tonga, Sunday is the most important day of the week where no shops, dairies, supermarkets or any business' open. There's strictly no loud music, dancing, playing games of any sort. This is because Tongans believe that in the Bible, the 7th day of the week (Sunday) is the day God made for his people to rest and go to church and up until today, this is how Tongan's have lived in Tonga ever since. This also shows how important the religious belief is as a Tongan, not only in Tonga but for Tongan's around the world.