The 1,000 monks, who live, study and pray at Burma’s Mahagandhayn Monastery, line up in the street for their daily meal. I made this street photograph into an abstraction by shooting some of them from behind, and using their shadows cast on the street itself to define their purpose. Monks are spiritual beings. They do not put their personal identities on display, but rather defer to their collective mission as Buddhist monks. The line of shadows is a metaphor for that spiritual quest. Shadows have no identity. And they, too, wait with infinite patience on this sun-baked street.