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Welcome
to the Website of Photographer A. J. Meek.
This official Site will bring you information and updates on
A. J. Meek's photography, gallery, latest projects, books
and new exhibits of his photographs. You will also
have the chance to acquire an A. J. Meek print for your
collection, be it home, office, or investment. |
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Artist's Statement
I am a project oriented
photographer working within the documentary tradition. I am interested
in combining a self-expressive connection with service to the field thus
contributing to the awakening of a moral consciousness, the social
issues of our time, and the enlightenment of the spirit.
- A. J. Meek
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Art: Sacred Light
Photographer A. J. Meek Embraces the South - by John R. Kemp
Baton Rouge photographer A. J. Meek was not born in
Louisiana ... But, like many writers and artists from other
places who visit the South with their imaginations open to
the landscape, Meek’s images of burning sugar cane fields,
decaying sugar mills and the interiors of houses of prayer
are possessed with the spirit of place and moment.
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 NEW
AND NOW AVAILABLE! THE LATEST BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY A. J. MEEK
Sacred Light: Holy Places in Louisiana
University of Mississippi Press
By A. J. Meek
Essay by Marchita B. Mauck
A decade's worth of fine art photography taken in the most divine
spaces of an elegantly devout state
Renowned photographer A. J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired
visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors
of churches and synagogues located in south Louisiana, mostly along
the lower Mississippi River valley. Tourists may crowd the famous
European cathedrals such as Notre Dame in Paris and Westminster
Abbey in London. Yet the splendors of local churches in America all
too often remain cloistered and unheralded. Meek's beautiful
photographs correct this oversight for Louisiana, a state that
features a great many beautiful and long-standing holy places.
For more information and the view photographs from
Meek's new
book,
click here.
PURCHASE YOUR COPIES HERE:
 
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NOW
IN OUR TO-BE-PUBLISHED GALLERY!
This
exhibit features work for the up-coming book "Vanishing Sugar:
Photographs of Louisiana's Vanishing Sugar Cane Industry," featuring
sugar cane operations both past and present throughout the
state. The images are broken down into two distinct galleries - black and
white and color. They tell of an industry, once a powerhouse of the
state's economy, now falling away into ruin and decay.
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The Art of Photography and the Amateur Ethic
In recent
times, the use of the word “amateur” has come to being an
uncommitted, hackneyed, immature, and unaware practitioners of a
given hobby such as photography. The true meaning of the word
“amateur”, however, is doing something for the love of it. It would
seem that a such a gifted person making photographs for joy’s sake
would be the salvation of many dreary academic art projects by
providing a fresh point of view and endearing spirit, benefiting
humanity’s quest for enlightenment.
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