An elderly pilgrim

An elderly pilgrim receives warm greetings from a friendly official. Customs and immigration formalities are brief and passengers pass quickly through one of the several arrival halls, which are specially built to cope with up to 10,000 people an hour. Kenya's renowned photojournalist Mohamed Amin portrays these crowning moments in the life of men, rich and poor, from places as far apart as Malaysia and Mali, Nigeria and Japan, Indonesia and Iraq.
He was among the first to be given permission to photograph sections of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina.