The Healing Moment

About the Book

These fifty photographs offer moments of revelation—spiritual “awakenings” that deepen one’s soul—as experienced through touch, reflection, self-acceptance, laughter, celebration, and emphatic bonds with others.

The photographs were made in religious, therapeutic, and medical settings, and include key moments in the life cycle relating to birth, illness, loss, and friendship.

Menashe writes “I am profoundly touched by how we attend to each other’s wounds, how we give to and care for one another, and I decided early in my career—in a world in need of affirmation—to mine images that illuminate and enlighten, that comfort and sustain, that bind us to one another."

We find, among other moments, a nurse communing with a newborn; an anti-war demonstrator defying the establishment; a psychotherapist offering unconditional acceptance to a client; a mother gazing into a baby’s serene face; a young woman in a wheelchair at the beach greeting the open sky with outstretched arms; a neighbor reassuring a panic-stricken Alzheimer’s patient.

With this collection we come to know a moment meant only for angels to witness—a moment that awaits each of us. We discover that our essential core is peaceful and whole; that it is not about the knowledge we gain, but how we nourish the light within, how we love one another. In the reconciled stillness of the photographs, a voice cries out “you must help carry the world.”

To view the complete series as well as read an online interview with the author, go to humanistic-photography.com.

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