Ridvan celebrates Baha’u’llah’s time in 1863 in the garden of Ridvan in Baghdad when He publicly declared His station as a Manifestation of God. The Ridvan Festival is 12 days long and is also the time of year when Baha’is elect their governing bodies.
In this talk, produced by Bahaiteachings.org, photojournalist and Baha’i Jasmine Kemp explains the relationship of photography to the human spirit. She discusses how lens, focus and lighting combine to capture a glimpse of God’s beauty in her talk titled “Framing the World: A Young Photojournalist Invites You to Really See.”
Jasmine Kemp explains that we all make decisions about how to see the beauty of the world, not just with our eyes and our cameras but with our souls. Citing the Baha’i Writings, Jasmine asks her audience to move away from the selfie to the selfless, so we can frame a lasting glimpse of the beauty of God’s amazingly diverse creation.
In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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