Photographing Faith

Today’s issue of Sightings is by Lauren Pond, a documentary photographer who specializes in religion and faith

By Lauren Pond|May 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 headshot

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.