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Photos courtesy Rick Nahmias
“California is the most diverse religious landscape in the entire world,” says Los Angeles-based photojournalist Rick Nahmias. In Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited, a book and installation currently on display at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Nahmias lifts the veil on the most marginalized people of faith, from San Quentin's Zen Buddhist inmates to San Francisco's sex workers who seek protection in Santa Muerte.
Photos courtesy Rick Nahmias

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