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This image was taken inside 'Justo's Cathedral' in Mejorada del Campo, Madrid, Spain. The person in the photo is Justo Gallego - a Spanish labourer who almost single-handedly, and with no money or technical expertise, built a huge cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of Pilar (his mother's favourite). He was on his way to becoming a priest but caught TB in 1961, and after recovering he started to build the cathedral (the top of which is 40m high) from some plans he had seen years before in some books in Latin.
Justo was very clear that the cathedral was his life's work - he slept at the back of the Cathedral in a small room on a wooden board he used as a bed. He even dug his own grave in the crypt years before he died in 2021 (although for sanitation reasons, he was actually buried with his other family in the local cemetery).
The photo was created after I worked for 5 or 6 hours pouring concrete, because typically Justo was quite grumpy about having his photo taken and was famously intollerant of the public who flocked to see his gigantic creation.
It's all natural light from the unfinished cupola above him and the rows of eclectic stained glass windows at various levels around the walls. I think it was taken with a Nikon D4 and a Sigma 24-104mm f/4.