Happy Valley Photo Essay

[_Runtu]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here, but I loved these photos:

Happy Valley: A Photographer Reflects on His Mormon Upbringing

[_Runtu]

Interesting comments to the photo essay. I probably shouldn't have responded to Bill Hamblin.

I admit it. I loved the photos. I can't understand why someone would dismissively wave them off as mediocre. Oh, well.

[_Blixa]

They're responding to the essay more than the photos.

By the way I loved the first comment: a pedantic sneer about misspelling Friedrich Nietzsche from the guy who can't quote Camus in context. Testify!

[_Runtu]

They're responding to the essay more than the photos.

By the way I loved the first comment: a pedantic sneer about misspelling Friedrich Nietzsche from the guy who can't quote Camus in context. Testify!

I wonder if he knows just how badly things like that come across to non-Mormons.

I'll say it again: that first photo is heartbreaking.

[_Runtu]

They're responding to the essay more than the photos.

By the way I loved the first comment: a pedantic sneer about misspelling Friedrich Nietzsche from the guy who can't quote Camus in context. Testify!

By the way, I notice Brian Shumway lives near you. I know it's a big city, but do you know him?

[_Morley]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here, but I loved these photos:

Happy Valley: A Photographer Reflects on His Mormon Upbringing

This is outstanding, Runtu. Very evocative. Thanks for the link.

[_Darth J]

"I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager, and I think that there were Hebrew tapir ranchers in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica who were Christians. Thus, I am much, much smarter than thou. And I find his photographs of daily life to be mediocre, and not at all a simple depiction of his experiences as a Mormon living in Utah. Therefore, everyone should just dismiss whatever this person has to say."

[_Blixa]

The name is slightly familiar, but when I googled him it turns out he does a TON of commercial and editorial work so I probably just know the name from that...

[_Doctor Scratch]

Wow. I guess someone must have circulated news of this around the Skinny-L list, because Mike Parker, Hamblin, and DCP are all engaged in what amounts to an incredibly vicious gang-attack. No wonder these guys have piss-poor reputations.

This, I thought, was classic:

Mormons are known for making this kind of aggressive collective response to all but extremely positive media coverage of their lifestyle and beliefs, so don´t take these comments very seriously. You have the right of reflecting the vision you have of your family whatever it is, I suppose you're not trying to reflect the Mormon church as a whole. And even then, I can see people playing, loving, being together, being themselves, not faking a religious propaganda, not trying to look perfect. And the fact that they accepted you to make and publish this, is a beautiful thing.

Lol. Way to save the Church's image, Team L-Skinny!

[_sock puppet]

Is "good grief" an expletive substitute for L-Skinnies?

It is overused by them to the point of being almost as hackneyed as the phrase "why on earth would you assume... ."