PROVO — A seven-year project that took photographer Mark Finch Hedengren to Ghana, Sweden, Scotland, Mexico, Utah, New York, California, France and Cambodia is now on display at the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU in Provo.

"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.

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If you go

What: Mark Finch Hedengren "Callings" photo exhibit

Where: Harold B. Lee Library, BYU campus

When: now through Oct. 16

Cost: free

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