Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life

We’re excited to announce a new collaboration with the Fetzer Institute that will explore the ways religion, faith and spirituality show up in everyday life. It’s called Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life. 

Even though religion, faith, and spirituality are important to the majority of people, these aspects of daily life can be hard to see in secular spaces such as work, school, or within one’s community. But what if the sacred was visible? What would it look like? Where would we find it? What would we see?

Beginning in June, five photographers in the United States will explore religion, faith, and spirituality in everyday life. They will compose photographs in response to prompts and meet together to discuss them. After a series of meetings, they will curate a selection of their photos that will be used by the Fetzer Institute to tell sacred stories related to religion, faith, and spirituality on their website and through social media.

Seeing the Sacred will be facilitated by Interfaith Photovoice founder Roman Williams and professional photographer Kevin Kubota. Together they will lead participants through a photovoice project and mentor them in photography.

We’re actively recruiting five amateur and professional photographers from different religious, faith and spiritual backgrounds based in the United States. In return for their participation, each photographer will be recognized by Fetzer for their contribution to this initiative and will receive a $750 stipend. 

Review of applications will begin May 24th and photographers will be selected by May 30th. Our first of five meetings will be scheduled for early June with input from participants. The project will conclude in late July.

Applications now closed.