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Thomas Brauer  priestographer

I am an Anglican Priest. I began my ministry in the Diocese of Edmonton, Canada. When I first started this website, I was serving in the Scottish Episcopal Church as priest-in-charge of a group of 3 congregations in Central Fife, Scotland. After a few years as the Diocesan Missioner for the Diocese of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, I then served as the vicar of the Anglican Parish of Sumner-Redcliffs in Christchurch, New Zealand for 5 years.

I am a learner. I completed my Doctoral studies in 2020, though due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I have not yet been able to get slapped on the head by the hat of learning. My thesis was called From Portraits of Absence to Analogies of Resurrection: A Theological Engagement with Photographic Phenomenology. I explored the ways in which the experience of photographs can support our understanding of faith, and how our experience of faith can support our understanding of photographs. This research was completed through the University of St. Andrews, and the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. My supervisors were the Rev. Prof. David Brown, and Dr. Natasha O’Hear.

I am from Canada. And I have had the joy to grow up on the North Shore of the Great Lakes, to have lived in Toronto, Saskatoon, Whitehorse, and Edmonton. I have also had the privilege to live, learn, and serve in Uganda, South Africa, Scotland, and New Zealand.

I am a photographer.  I make images of the world as God made it, and what humans have made of it.  

I want, more than anything, for humans to find reconciliation with themselves, with each other, with their world, and with their God.

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