The tough part about that shot is, imo, figuring out what you want to do. You've got a white church all alone with a black roof on a white background.
There's not a lot of information in the scene. It's way easy to burn out big hunks of the image and try to grab some contrast in the boards of the building or in the roof.
What I'm guessing he did -- and this is only a guess -- is take a multiple-exposure shot and then do some magic post-production. But instead of trying to pull more information out? He left it mostly a wash, with only the roof having detail. (I'm thinking he pumped that up a bit)
This makes your eye struggle to find information and meaning in the walls of the church, or the surrounding land. You see the roof, it is interesting, so you assume there are other items of interest there. But there isn't any -- which nicely tells the story of a remote community that's timeless, the gist of the writing.
He formed the shot in an original way to have the viewer's mind play into the theme of the text, while still making a nice image. Very cool.
ED: Actually the more I look at it, the more I like it. It's almost like he used a gauze of soft focus on one of his shots, with the church in focus and everything else just a little blurry.
