From Camera to Pen, a Review

I just finished reading Framing Faith by Matt Knisely. Matt is an award-winning photojournalist and author. Since I am a photographer too I was excited to read this book.

Matt does a good job of taking aspects of photography and using them as a starting point to get his message of needing a personal relationship with the Lord across. Each chapter deals with one aspect (such as Focus or Perspective) and he discusses all of his ideas using photographical terms. He also uses a lot of stories and images from his own personal experiences with photojournalism to get his message across.

I found the book to be interesting but not really anything new. Knisely tells us that we need to know who we are, that we live in an information loaded world and because we are so distracted we often miss God’s voice. It’s a message we’ve all heard before just reframed using his photography background.

I read a review by Jeff Goins, the author of The In-Between. He said like a good photograph, the more you look at it, the more you find. He feels this is true about Knisely’s book.  Perhaps in a second reading one might find more but I’m not motivated by this book to read it again.

(I was given this book to review by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. All opinions are my own.)