By Ed Snyder on January 29, 2008
Ed Snyder is having a show of his photography at St. Asaph Gallery, Feb. 17 – Mar. 16 2008.
Posted in Announcements & Events, Death & Dying, Grief & Mourning, Photography | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By admin on July 31, 2006
For the first time, I’ve mixed the content of one of my shows–angels and demons. I was offered the opportunity to hang work at Mugshots, a coffee house in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia. As Mugshots is right across the street from Eastern State Penitentiary, I decided to show both bodies of work (especially [...]
Posted in Announcements & Events, Cemeteries, Death & Dying, Grief & Mourning | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By Ed Snyder on July 11, 2006
This article is part of a series on How Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery Is Reinventing Itself. It is based on an interview with Ross Mitchell, Executive Director of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.
Stoneangels: You said death was more common in the 1800s?
Ross Mitchell: The life span was much shorter back then. And before there [...]
Posted in Death & Dying, Grief & Mourning, Interviews, Laurel Hill | Tagged child mortality, death, laurel hill cemetery, mourning, ross mitchell
By Ed Snyder on January 16, 2006
I have a small family. Growing up, I did not have a lot of experience with death and dying. My grandmother died when I was maybe 5. I think I must have been 16 years old when I saw my first viewing. As a rule, my family never made a big deal out of the [...]
Posted in Cemeteries, Grief & Mourning, Photography | Tagged cemetery photography, garden cemeteries, grief, stages of grief
