Town of Mecca

For just a few days in the year, the normally quiet town of Mecca is thronged with thousands of pilgrims, sometimes as many as a million altogether. 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.