Christian Meditation & Contemplative Photography - Reflections on Contemplative Photography in the light of John Main and Thomas Merton - Part 5/6

 

Part 5: Time and discipline

If you look into the camera and you see something you recognize, don’t click the shutter 

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi

Fifth appointment with the series of video reflections on contemplative photography and the various connections with Christian meditation.

This time we will consider Self Portrait as a practice of loving ourselves. 

Let's have a look to the introductory video:

Video 5_1 - Introduction

Video 5_2 - Vivian Meier

We will be guided by some pictures of the very well known master of street photography and self portrait, the French-American photographer Vivian Meier (1926-2009).

“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self”

Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

Video 5_3 - Exercises

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. 

It will not lead you astray”

Rumi, quoted in Zen Camera

A picture from father Laurence Freeman, OSB

A picture taken from father Laurence's collection for the
Daily Wisdom - https://wccm.org/mobile/daily-wisdom/

Bibliography.

Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton 

by Thomas Merton, Paul M. Pearson

Paulist, Mahwah; 2015

Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton

by John Howard Griffin

Wings Press, San Antonio, Tex.; 2010

The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes

by Andy Karr, Michael Wood

Shambhala, Boston; 2011

Zen Camera: Creative Awakening With a Daily Practice in Photography

by David Ulrich

Watson-Guptill, New York; 2018

Christian Meditation. The Gethsemani Talks

by John Main

Medio Media Pub., Tucson, AZ; 2001

New Seeds of Contemplation

by Thomas Merton

New Directions, New York; 2007

First edition: 1962

Meditazione e fotografia. Vedendo e ascoltando passare l'attimo

by Diego Mormorio

Contrasto, Roma; 2008

Fotografia creativa. Corso con esercizi per svegliare l'artista che dorme dentro di te

by Franco Fontana

Mondadori, Milano; 2017

This is a project for the World Community for the Christian Meditation - WCCM

Teacher Leader Programme - Cohort II - 2021-2022

Music by:

Davide Rossi