Photographing Faith
Today’s issue of Sightings is by Lauren Pond, a documentary photographer who specializes in religion and faith
By Lauren PondMay 17, 2018
Today’s issue of Sightings is by Lauren Pond, a documentary photographer who specializes in religion and faith. You can read her essay—and see examples of her extraordinary work—here.
Lauren will be speaking about her book, Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation (Duke University Press, 2017), this Saturday, May 19, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m., at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore near the University of Chicago.
Image: A rattlesnake slithers around Pastor Mack Wolford’s neck during an outdoor worship service, Panther Park, West Virginia, 2011.
Lauren Pond
Lauren Pond is the Marty Center's Digital Media & Communications Manager. She is an award-winning creative producer who uses audiovisual storytelling to explore and evoke the complexities of religious life. Lauren previously served as Multimedia Producer of the American Religious Sounds Project, a Luce Foundation-funded digital research initiative co-directed by scholars at The Ohio State University and Michigan State University. She published her first monograph, Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation, through Duke University Press in 2017.