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Published April 8, 2004

Over the course of a thirty-year career in photography, Robin Nelson has told many stories through pictures ranging from tragedy to triumph.

�When you�re telling a story with a picture, you�re just moving with the story itself,� he says. �Sometimes you know you have it. But at other times, you have to go back and look into the pictures for the subtleties that tell the story.

�I look at the eyes of the people. When you look into someone�s eyes, you�re looking into their soul.

�When shooting, I try to document what that person is going through. In Julie Gilmore�s case, she had no doubt God was going to heal her. She never lost that faith � even while going through chemotherapy. It can be tough to capture that fully.�

A photographer's journey between two worlds

Robin Nelson, Freelance photographer

Today, Nelson is the photography editor for Conversations, a magazine published by Wildwood Baptist Church in Acworth. �The focus is for us to tell the stories of real people who have dealt with real struggles in their life,� he says. For more information, go to www.sweetlight.org.

Robin Nelson

Two young children in a rural area of Tunica, Miss., look out from their impoverished home. This was a part of a series of photos for a news magazine story on the poorest county in the United States.

Robin Nelson

An HIV-positive inmate in an Alabama prison serves a life sentence.

Robin Nelson

A lesbian couple hug each other as they watch street preachers speak out with words of condemnation toward gays at rally outside Georgia statehouse. The rally was supporting Georgia�s proposed ban on same-sex marriage.

Robin Nelson

Julie Gilmore, her head bald from chemotherapy, listens as husband Kerry reads from their Bible. Julie was given only weeks to live a year ago because of a deadly lung tumor, but her faith was unshakable. �I believe God is going to heal me,� she told her doctors. Today, Julie is cancer-free.

Robin Nelson

Four-year-old Faith McDonnell of Kennesaw is a miracle child. Doctors advised her parents to terminate the pregnancy because Faith had no kidneys and wouldn�t survive. Her parents refused, and enlisted prayer from thousands through their church. Faith was born prematurely with only part of one kidney. A month later, doctors discovered she had grown a second kidney. Today, she is a very healthy little girl who knows Jesus.

Robin Nelson

A young man reaches out for forgiveness at the Rick Gage revival held in Gainesville.

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