{"id":8547,"date":"2024-06-30T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2024-06-30T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:30:32","slug":"photographer-megan-reillys-a-deal-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/?p=8547","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Megan Reilly&#8217;s &#8220;A Deal with God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Photographer Megan Reilly was born on Staten Island, grew up in the Hudson Valley, and graduated from the State University of New York with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in fine arts and photography. Her series, &#8220;A Deal with God,&#8221; is an introspective photo essay reflecting on themes such as childhood, religion, lesbianism, and learning how to grow into a woman:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs a child, my first memories and understanding of life began with the events of 9\/11. The camera lens acted like a microscope, allowing me to privately question the conservative American belief system I was a part of. In retrospect, this project was created as a way for me to take up space as a storyteller and address the emotional bondage I felt throughout my adolescence. Now I am able to settle down, relate to metaphysical philosophies, and search for answers, peace, home, connection to people, and a higher power. Photography has served as both protection and representation, granting freedom of expression and the liberation of curiosity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See more images from &#8220;A Deal with God&#8221; below.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '947926475398323');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booooooom.com\/2024\/06\/24\/a-deal-with-god-by-photographer-megan-reilly\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Megan Reilly was born on Staten Island, grew up in the Hudson Valley, and graduated from the State University of New York with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in fine arts and photography. Her series, &#8220;A Deal with God,&#8221; is an introspective photo essay reflecting on themes such as childhood, religion, lesbianism, and learning how to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-exhibitions-events"},"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoday.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}