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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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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.

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A. J. Meek discusses Sacred Light: Holy Places in Louisiana from University Press of Mississippi on Vimeo.

NEW 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. Click to visit the gallery.

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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