20150408-1738 📧 “photo for Christianity Today”
Hi Logan,
I wrote to you at your Duke address but the email bounced and Warren Kinghorn was kind enough to let me know you are studying in Scotland right now and provided your current contact info for me. I'm pasting my original email below. However, given that you are over seas, the plan won't be quite as I originally intended. We would, however, still like to photograph you for Christianity Today magazine. We have a photographer that we've worked with in Scotland before and I would like to reach out to her to see if she's available to photograph you in the next week or two. Where exactly are you located? Are you open to being photographed for CT in connection with our story on PTSD that largely features Warren's work?
Please get back to me as soon as possible. I'm eager to see what the possibilities are for this!
Best,
Alecia Sharp
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Hi Logan,
As you might be aware, Christianity Today magazine will be running a cover story on PTSD and the role of the church in helping those afflicted by it. The article is primarily framed around Warren Kinghorn's work on the topic—including how your relationship with him and seeking him out as an academic advisor shifted his perception of the field and his approach to PTSD. We would like to photograph you for the primary images that will accompany this story and I would also like to photograph you with Warren Kinghorn—maybe interacting in some way.
I need to have this photographed in the next week or two. Would you be available to meeting with a photographer for a few hours next week or the week after? Are you in Durham?
We'd like to photograph you in a variety of ways. Is there a possibility of some of these portraits being photographed in any military clothing? I'll express to you that one of the goals of photographing you is to show the toll of war and moral injury. We'll be looking to show you realistically—not touched up with airbrushed skin in any kind of glamorous way. We hope to come away with images that are reflective and show the seriousness of the topic. We want your face to speak to the pain of PTSD (if possible) and for the composition of the images to potentially allude to the darkness of the disorder and the potential light that is at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.
Let me know how you feel about this and what your schedule looks in the next 14 days or so. I'll likely be sending a photographer to Durham to do this so I need to jump on this ASAP.
Thanks so much, Logan. Feel free to email or call if you have any questions.
