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Sep 20, 2012

"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure." --Henri Nouwen

Families Held Together By Love ... & Skype

We live in a world in which some of the people we are closest to are often not near us at all. When we document our day-to-day existence in photographs and Instagrams, these people are absent. Their presence in our lives is missing from our digital memories. Photographer John Clang's series Being Together seeks to correct this. Using Skype and projectors, he captures families visually as they are virtually. "In these images," Clang says, "I am enabling families to remember these strange moments of togetherness with the technology presently available." This article shares striking examples of his work and its impact.