Images of Athos—Cloth bound Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopaedi. 1997. 400 pages. Hard-bound. Both in the past and today there are monks who have become successful photographers. They have produced remarkable work which has strengthened the faith and piety even of people who have never made the pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain. One of these monk-photographers is Father Chariton of the Great Lavra. For many years he has walked up and down the length of Mount Athos on its dirt roads and footpaths. It was not easy, but he captured ascetic faces wrinkled by the weight of years, and tried to immortalize their evocative gaze, fixed on approaching eternity. Besides the compunctionate visages of the dwellers of the Holy Mountain, Father Chariton has also captured the beauty of this Garden of the Virgin: the buildings and holy relics, the plants and flowers, the animals, birds and insects. Published by the Holy Monastery of Vatopaedi, which hopes that thus making more widely known this wealth of remarkable photographs, both ascetics and laymen will be compelled to cry out, Lord in Thy wisdom hast thou made all things!