Joy Lewis photo blog

My lovely and gifted friend, Adam Wisneski, said that photojournalists are really ethnographers with cameras. He is completely right. These are some of the people who have let me into their lives, to study their days, reasons and ways

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Mama is luminous

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Mallard

“These are a few of my favorite things…”

December

Mark and Brenda’s new apartment in Columbus, Ga.
My little brother Mark married Brenda on a New Year’s Eve Blue Moon.  Here he’s on the phone with our brother Luke, currently in Iraq.  Congratulations Brenda & Mark Lewis!

Peahopper turned into my frame and pulled my autofocus just as I was shooting
Annual Christmas tree portrait preparation- models [...]

November

Just a few of the family from November, starting with my sister-in-law to be, Brenda.  Next is my neice starting early in the tree business.  My grandmother, “Mema,” saw me photographing our cat, Clyde, and didn’t notice me snap this one of her.  I have a goal to make perfect portraits of both my grandmothers.

Personal

October was a great month.  Here are some of the pictures of my family starting with a portrait of my brothers, left to right, Mark Levi, Luke Micah and Heath Joseph.  Our mom insisted this picture be made with them wearing matching shirts.  Mark is engaged to Brenda, they plan to marry before Christmas.  Luke [...]

Broken Shutter

My baby failed me while shooting a high school band competition for the Telegraph.  These are some of the frames I took while troubleshooting.  Woody and Grant helped me get my D300 fixed.

Drew & Caroline

I had the privilege of spending a few hours with Drew and Caroline Haralson’s family, they have three children; Emily, Ansley, and Levi.  Beautiful, vibrant, cheerful children!

The Macon Telegraph

Since arriving home in October, I’ve been blessed to freelance quite a bit for my local newspaper.  The photo staff, including Woody Marshall and Grant Blankenship, opened up my eyes to photojournalism years ago, it is an honor to learn from them again.  Here are a few singles from freelancing that I liked.
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Georgia

Saw my niece Averi Lewis for the first time in 9 months.  She is beautiful.  I’ll be photographing her quite a bit while I’m home in Georgia figuring out the next step.  The only bad part about being home is missing all my people in Ky. Okla. Va. and NH!!!