PHOTOS
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
-Joan Didion
Church of Our Savior has historically been a place of inclusion and support for everyone in the community. A pride flag flies upon its facade as well as a Black Lives Matter banner, and another that says “imigrantes and refugiados bienvenidos”–immigrants and refugees welcome.
Every Sunday, the church holds a 10:30 a.m. bilingual mass after their English-spoken mass at 8:00 a.m.
“When I first started, [the numbers were] increasing every year and that was kind of sad,” Pennyrae says. “Now, it’s going down, because the people are finding work, which is so amazing.” But even after finding work and growing out of their need for the food pantry and community meals, Pennyrae says some of their previously regular patrons still drop in just to let the church know how they’re doing and thank them for helping them in their time of need.
Church of Our Savior has historically been a place of inclusion and support for everyone in the community. A pride flag flies upon its facade as well as a Black Lives Matter banner, and another that says “imigrantes and refugiados bienvenidos”–immigrants and refugees welcome.
THE FEEDING OF THE 6000
April 2019
Church of Our Savior, alternatively, La Iglesia de Nuestro Salvador, in Mount Auburn is a house of worship, a place of refuge and the source of food for 6000 folks every year. This photo essay shines a light on a community resource that relentlessly helps those in need, no matter their story, no matter their need.
The Material Recycling Facility in St. Bernard cost $32 million to found. In 2012, a non-recyclable material that came through the MRF causes a devastating fire. To this day, they aren't sure what caused the fire.
Rumpke's MRF sorts 55 tons of recyclable material each hour. Non-recyclable materials like loose milk jug lids and plastic grocery bags can get caught in the gears of these behemoth machines and cause breakdowns that cut the plant's efficiency down by a fraction.
These efforts, though they may seem small, are encouraging consumers to consider not only reducing, reusing and recycling, but also rethinking. There’s an expiration date on every landfill. Efforts in environmentalism start small, within a single community. “Educate yourself on what can be recycled and what can’t. Talk to us. Take a tour,” Yeager says. “We need your help.”
The Material Recycling Facility in St. Bernard cost $32 million to found. In 2012, a non-recyclable material that came through the MRF causes a devastating fire. To this day, they aren't sure what caused the fire.
RUMPKE RECYCLING
April 2019
This photo series accompanied my multimedia capstone project in college about how Cincinnati's recycling process works and how consumers can manage their waste better. These images were taken inside Rumpke's $32 million Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in St. Bernard.
DEEPER ROOTS COFFEE
April 2018
This photo essay was my first, prompted by a photojournalism course I took in college. I photographed the process of coffee beginning with unroasted beans and ending with the community that Deeper Roots has fostered around the community's central love of directly-sourced, carefully-roasted, precisely-extracted coffee.
PORTRAITS
February 2018
These are a collection of portraits I've snapped since my introduction to photojournalism, honestly capturing a person's personality and the beauty in the technicalities that photography has to offer.