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Book 01: First Portfolio

INTRODUCTION

This collection contains my earliest set of images—you might say, my first song, whose lyrics I would continue to nurture for a lifetime. The images inaugurated a spiritual commitment to casting light on humanity’s plight and celebrating its promise.

We encounter an autistic boy trapped in silence, a Hare Krishna disciple in a moment of bliss, a runaway teen peering into our eyes, a teacher comforting a despondent child. Each subject, in later years, would be explored on its own—with titles like Inner Grace; The Face of Prayer; Tompkins People; Couples; and The Healing Moment.

Within this fifty black-and-white collection, we find a couple embracing at New York City’s very first Gay Pride Parade, the silhouette of an elderly woman facing uncertainty, a homeless man with arms outstretched like a crucifix, near children at play—images that reach beyond a concern for society’s outcasts, the poor, and the mentally ill, to define a unique genre of photography infused with my personal theology.

It is a theology that points to the generosity of a universe, ready to redeem those willing to be awakened and comfort those thirsting to be consoled.

Abraham Menashe
New York City, (1975) 2010
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01_First-PortfolioFirst Portfolio, by Abraham Menashe, available from iTunes.

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