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This photograph helps me remember several things about myself: that I come from Louisiana, that I like to fish, that I am a total dork, and that my ability to dress myself has improved very little over the years.
Photographs play a vital role in memory. That’s true not only for personal memories like mine, but also for societal and historical memories. Or, in the case of nonprofits, “organizational memories.” Good photographs can cut through the often impersonal facts of history to reveal the intimate details of faces, eyes, emotions, relationships and environments. Photographs can take the broad and overwhelming story of an era or a movement, and personalize it.
When the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown began planning its 200th anniversary, they decided that photography must play a role. Their history is more than a history of crowds and committees and buildings. It is a history of changing lives. And what better way to present that personal, intimate kind of history than through photography.
So we’re working on a series of photo essays, which the church will incorporate into their bicentennial celebration next year. These photo essays will focus on individuals who have been a part of the church from every decade since the 1920’s - including Harriet Kerr, who joined in 1928!
April 7th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Nice jams, Drew!
I ran across this photo gallery today and thought you and Leah would enjoy it:
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2008/mar/bowman/bowman_gallery/index.html
You guys take very different kinds of portraits, but the emotional quality is similar, I think. Reminds me of the feeling of some of your photos of young dads.