Comments on: richard ashe – divine https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 08:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: Divine ashe | Zoofu https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-108626 Thu, 03 May 2012 23:51:33 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-108626 […] divine by richard ashe | burn magazineDec 25, 2008 … church deacons laying on of hands photograph by Richard Ashe. […]

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By: Paul Treacy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-26300 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:48:10 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-26300 I agree with Damon. Spooky. Well seen.

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By: Richard Ashe https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-25990 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:07:01 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-25990 David, I appreciate your comments and insight. Both the men in this picture are deacons. The younger man is being ordained and the man above him is an established deacon. Laying on of hands is a part of the tradition of deacon ordination. I shot the entire ordination and have posted a selection of photos from this project, which is still in progress. I’m mostly self taught and new to showing my work and again truly appreciate all of the support and criticism I’ve received.

Thanks

Richard

P.S.

I just checked my site and it’s down because I’m broke and need to pay my mobile me bill. I’ll fix it tomorrow so give me till the evening and you can access my photo’s. I have prints if you are in NYC.

R.

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By: Kyunghee Lee https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-25714 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:15:47 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-25714 I feel very constitutive line and nice blown out light…

Thank you, Richard.
Kyunghee Lee

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By: david bowen https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-25461 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:13:36 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-25461 richard

i really like the photo for it’s strong diagonal and the paradox in expression fo the subjects.. teh priest with forehead screwed up in concentration against the ‘saved’ with the kind of face i have just after..erm.. yes.

the pantomime which religion is sometimes made into is kind of saved by this photo, with the real effort and real relief illustrated here.. which makes me think.. lucky snap or can we see more of your work online, please? google is fruitless.. fruitless..

at this time of celebrating the new year with a new baby i’m often asked about his christening.. to which i say he’ll not be christened.. to which people say he must for ‘tradition’.. to which i say ‘PAH’.

this photo, if any, lends an indication of a good reason to be involved with organized religion..

.. happy birthday jesus .. sorry it’s a few months late.

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By: bobblack https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-25455 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:41:52 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-25455 ” ‘Praise the Lord,’ said his father. He did not move to touch him, did not kiss him, did not smile. They stood before each other in silence, while the saints rejoiced; and John struggled to speak the authoritative, the living word that would conquer the great division between his father and himself. But it did not come, the living word; in the silence something died in John, and something came alive.” –Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin…

absolutely reminds me of Baldwin’s great novel of Harlem and the live of the division of family and light….besides all the dividing and haunting grain (always a slave of grain myself ;)) ), but i love is the power of the light to divide and to encase simultaneously…an example of how the properly of photography is used metaphorically to show the essence of what spiritual relinquishment, baptism feels like….a burst of light cascading amid the waterfall of shadow that drenches and saves or divides….that is the fidelity to place and light…

great to see the pic…

cheers
bob

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By: Damon Coulter https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-25454 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:29:42 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-25454 Wow that is an amazing pic! The fact that pastor is half hidden behind the shapes to the side and seems almost to have ambushed the bald man below, who is none-the-less ectastic at his capture, gives it a spooky, slightly malevolent quality. Pretty much how I see organised religion. Great moment great image.
Wow again!!
Damon

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By: erik https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-25450 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:05:14 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-25450 the blown out light comes from HIM HIMself… seriously, i could say a “touching” pic, but i´m so agnostic i prefer to say perfectly captured moment.

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By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2008/12/divine-intervention-by-richard-ashe/#comment-25448 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:15:03 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=477#comment-25448 An iconic ageless portrait that speaks without words. The blown-out light & dense grain add to its power.

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