And The Word Was God

• Photographer
  Lydia Goldblatt, United Kingdom
• Website
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In the series And The Word Was God, children and young adolescents perform religious rituals and texts, as a means of exploring the way in which religious identity is so often learnt through an adoption of and adherence to pre-existing structures. The work probes the encounter between the collective nature and identity of religious practice, and the individual who takes this on.
It underlines the power of ritual to shape our sense of cultural identity and, in highlighting the individuality and imperfection of each performance, explores the meaning and implications inherent within an adoption of religious identity.