Columbus, Ohio, USA
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Essays
Test of Faith
Belief, Unbound
Pagan in Prison
The Bird Vet
A Less Lonely Road
Millennial Signs Followers
Faith Builders
Born Again Bikers
City of Widows
Portraits
Assorted Portraits
Exotic Pets & Owners
Human Nature
American Heathens
Born Again Bikers
Places & Spaces
Indoors
Outdoors
Structures
Landscapes
Landscapes I
Liminal Spaces
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Miracle in the Desert
Cheshire
Multimedia
The Cheshire Clouds
Religious Soundscapes
Religious Sounds Project Gallery
Religious Sounds Project Archive
Smithsonian Art Signs
Publications
Book: Test of Faith
Sightings: Rodin’s “The Cathedral”
Revealer: Pagan in Prison
Revealer: Queer Nuns
Smithsonian: Religious Sounds
RNS: Parliament of Religions
Washington Post: Mack Wolford
AARP: Pets during COVID-19
NYT: Looking at Appalachia
WSJ: Snake Handling
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Shawn Reilly, a Native American veteran, at the Monroe Independence Day Pow Wow, Sardis, Ohio, 2015.
Hannah Mahmoud on her high school graduation day, Columbus, Ohio, 2016.
Jankibai, Vrindavan, India, 2006.
Angie Tapia at the annual Greenlawn Cemetery Dia de los Muertos festival. Columbus, Ohio, 2017. Used with the permission of The Ohio State University. Produced with support from the American Religious Sounds Project (religioussounds.osu.edu).
Preacher Pete Woods, Bradshaw, West Virginia, 2016.
Pearl Dawson, a Pentecostal Sign Follower, Brushfork, West Virginia, 2016.
Pastor Mack Wolford, Matoaka, West Virginia, 2011.
Tawanda Chabikwa with sculptures – molded from his own face – that explore the Yoruba concept of Ori, or the head as the house of the spirit and divinity, Columbus, Ohio, 2019.
Virginia Petroski, Meadville, Pennsylvania, 2014.
Missionary John Dillon, Mecca, California, 2013.
Vincent Troesch, Louisville, Kentucky, 2015.
Wiccan priestess Debbie Hess, Louisville, Kentucky, 2015.
"New Monastic" John Barrieau at PAPA Festival, Nottingham, Pennsylvania, 2011.
Tarot reader and spiritual counselor Adam Beaubois, St. Louis, Missouri, 2019.
Cowboy preacher Richard Wagner, Columbus, Ohio, 2013.
Assorted Portraits
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American Heathens
Documentary Artist and Storyteller. Based in Columbus, OH.
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