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Violet's Baptism

A morning baptism — booklets open, candles passed hand to hand around the font, and a room full of family in white.

Baptism
Documentary
Church

A priest in white vestments reads from a booklet before a gilded altarpiece while a couple seen from behind holds an infant, with guests reading along at right

Client: Violet
Role: Baptism coverage
Year: 2025

The rite

The whole thing runs on paper and candlelight. Everyone arrives holding a Rites of Baptism booklet, and for most of the ceremony the room is reading from it together — which meant most of my frames that morning are of hands, print and the space between people.

A row of guests in white and cream stand along a chapel wall reading from Rites of Baptism booklets

A hand holds an open Rites of Baptism booklet showing the Gospel and intercessions, with blurred guests behind — Everyone reads along.

A priest reads from a booklet at left as a woman holding an infant, a man in a white polo and a group of guests stand in a chapel vestibule — The vestibule, before the font.

At the font

A woman lowers an infant toward a gilded baptismal font as a priest and guests read from booklets around them — The font.

A woman in a white shirt passes a lit taper across the baptismal font toward a woman holding an infant — The candle goes around.

Three guests in white and cream stand holding lit candles and open Rites of Baptism booklets

Shot quietly, from the back and the edges. A baptism isn't a set — you work around it.

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