In the Absence of Beat Reporters Covering Religion, Photojournalists Fill the Gaps
Noteworthy photographers capturing real presence
George Etheredge’s photos aren’t the only example of good religion photojournalism to accompany or stand in for dwindling religion reporters. San Antonio Express-News photographer Lisa Krantz made an ALS victim’s Christian faith tangible not by simply photographing him in prayer but, incredibly, by making him a kind of Christ. Celebrity photographer Danielle Levitt set up a portrait studio at New York’s hottest megachurch to break out of millennial evangelical caricatures and give the rest of us a sense we might have something in common with these people. Rivard Report photographer Scott Ball discovered profound community and meaning-making at a simple Sikh construction project (he wrote the accompanying article, too). Several photographers clued into the shared belief — both religious and non-religious — in the sanctity of land at Standing Rock