Under the hood
For centuries, robed penitents around Spain have taken part in solemn processions to mark Holy Week.
Their long gowns and pointed hoods - which bear an unfortunate resemblance to the Ku Klux Klan, though they are in no way connected to that organisation - give them a mysterious air. But a peak beneath the hood shows them as ordinary men and women.
A penitent of the San Gonzalo brotherhood holds a mobile phone under his hood as he takes part in a Holy Week procession.
A young penitent from the "Via Crucis" brotherhood adjusts her hood.
A penitent gazes upwards.
Twenty-eight-year-old Patricia Calvo waits inside a church before taking part in a procession.
A child looks over the shoulder of a penitent from the "Cartujos" brotherhood before a Palm Sunday procession.
Blue-robed penitents wait inside a church.
A penitent adjusts his hood as he stands by a wall in Seville.
A young woman waits in the shade before the procession of "La Sangre" brotherhood.
A penitent adjusts her hood before the procession of the "Merced" brotherhood.
