In the Absence of Beat Reporters Covering Religion, Photojournalists Fill the Gaps – Vantage – Medium

In the Absence of Beat Reporters Covering Religion, Photojournalists Fill the Gaps

Noteworthy photographers capturing real presence

via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/in-the-absence-of-religion-reporters-photojournalists-are-filling-the-gaps-e52755d70e35#.xia2irofm

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