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While in Burundi, Leah and I visited a prison. This is the song we heard a handful of prisoners singing. I recommend turning up the volume on your speakers…
This is a video I put together of some sights and sounds from Philadelphia. I took the train into the city yesterday for some photography on my day off. Enjoy!
Leah and I love our church. We attend The First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, located in Philadelphia, PA. We have made some lifelong friends there, and we are very excited about the ministry and community development work that they are doing in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
So we really enjoyed helping them build their new website! Our friends at Whiteboard Media did an amazing job with the design and construction of the site, while Leah and I focused on the photography and content management.
Not only have we helped FPCG build their website, but we put together a photo directory, too. The previous directory of members was just a list with names and numbers. But so many people in the community complained of not being able to put faces to the names. So we got to work photographing almost every member of the church — two hundred active or semi-active families!
We work with several churches in addition to FPCG to offer professional photography, content management, and newsletter (including e-newsletter) publication. Please see an example of one of our e-newsletters by clicking here. And please visit our Church Congregation album to see more examples of the photos we’ve taken for churches.
Del Camino Connection is a nonprofit organization based in the Dominican Republic that connects churches in the global south to churches in the north. The relationships that develop from these connections not only strengthen the churches involved, but effectively change the lives of hundreds of people around the world.
We have the opportunity to travel to the Dominican Republic every once in a while to photograph some of these churches at work in their communities. The common denominator among these churches is that each one is concerned about both the spiritual needs of the community and the physical/emotional needs. These churches are taking active roles in childhood education, community medical care, work with the homeless, and advocating for those whose voices are not often heard.
See more of our Dominican Republic photos here.
We recently had the pleasure of working with Allens Lane Art Center in Philadelphia. Leah and I have been big fans of the Art Center for some time now, and were really happy to get the chance to work with them. They are a thriving center for the arts in Northwest Philly, offering a wide variety of classes, concerts, camps, theater performances, and other special events in their newly-rennovated facility. They also have a terrific gallery that includes a variety of fine art media.
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Our job was to capture in photographs their current production of “Bee-luther-hatchee,” a drama that explores the interweaving issues of race, art, memory and grief.
Leah and I enjoy working with art organizations not only because we believe in what they do, and we want to be a part of their success, but also because it’s always fun to see how our work can complement the work of other artists.
The play was written by Thomas Gibbons, and directed by Daniel Student (pictured below as he watches the dress rehearsal).
