"If you want to know people’s secrets, you need time," writes Thomas Coex, AFP's chief photographer in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

"You can’t just show up, snap some pictures for a few days and expect that people will open up to you. Especially if they are the guardians of the Tomb of Christ who have been in the Old City of Jerusalem for the last 800 years, the Christian group with the longest continuous presence in the Holy City."