From Deseret News archives:
'Callings' a portrait of service
Photo project captures LDS members at work
"Callings: Service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" is a photo essay of ordinary people serving as missionaries, teachers, bishops and volunteers in their stakes, wards and missions.
"Whenever I was in a country working on a project, I would spend some time photographing and interviewing the local Mormons," Hedengren said.
The result is an exhibit consisting of 27 images and interviews with Latter-day Saints singing in the choir, visiting one another, teaching Primary classes, attending church, enjoying a family home evening game, praying and being baptized. Callings make up The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Hedengren said. The church couldn't function without people serving in these capacities. The fact that a major amount of the work in the church is done by volunteers is a unique part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
To explore members and the relationship to their callings is to explore the very fabric of what it is to be a Mormon, he said.
Hedengren is a graduate student in the MFA program in the Glasgow School of Art in the United Kingdom.
Hedengren is a former BYU student and photo intern for the Deseret Morning News.
If you go
What: Mark Finch Hedengren "Callings" photo exhibit
Where: Harold B. Lee Library, BYU campus
When: now through Oct. 16
Cost: free
E-mail: haddoc@desnews.com
