Another not wedding post | Philadelphia Photojournalist

I know this is supposed to tell you all about my wedding photography and my thoughts on that subject. However, when good stuff happens elsewhere in my professional life I love to share.

After I left the newspaper world in 2005, I received a prestigious Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography for a project I proposed about the diversification of American faith and the way that ritual and fellowship form the basis of all faiths regardless of doctrine. I worked on this project in Flushing, NY, the most religiously diverse place in the world. I documented a good number of the various faith and cultural groups there for the project.

This week, 100eyes.org, an online photography magazine published an edit of the project on their new section on Diversity. Please click on the picture to go take a look, leave a comment and share.

Thanks.

Exhibit News

I have some images in two exhibits. The first is up now at the Brooklyn Public Library. It's part of an exhibit of photographs of religious communities across New York City. The four images of mine are from an ongoing documentary project I've been working on in Flushing. Below is one image from the show as well as a postcard promo. Stop by if you're in the area. The opening party is on Feb. 5th.

There will be another more extensive, although not comprehensive or particularly huge, exhibit later this spring at the Queens Museum of Art's exhibit as part of the 350th celebration of the Flushing Remonstrance. (Quick history lesson: This was the first time colonial settlers put on paper the idea that the colonies in 1657 should be a place where "men" should be able to worship freely as they chose. Long story short, they won the fight and it, at least philosophically, laid the groundwork for the Freedom of Religion part of the First Ammendment, although there is no direction connection that can be made between the two.)