The result of Schaefers experiences, Come and See, is a book created around the dictates of Mother Teresa, who wanted the people who picked it up to see Mother Teresas world” – to see, hear and smell” the environment in which she lived and shared her love.
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Accepting Miracles: Unlocking the World of Mother Teresa with Linda Schaefer, Internationally Known Photojournalist
Were excited to have Linda Schaefer joining our program today to help us persevere to fulfill our dreams,” commented Tacy Trump, Executive Director at VoiceAmerica. Schaefer joins Dr. Pat Baccili just weeks after returning from Rome, Italy, where she attended Mother Teresas beatification, one of the steps to sainthood in the Catholic Church. Schaefer, an internationally known photojournalist, is the author of a very unique book called Come and See: A Photojournalist's Journey into the World of Mother Teresa. Something about the diminutive nun from Calcutta, India so captured Schaefer that she knew their Atlanta meeting was destiny. Schaefer had decided many years ago that she wanted to shoot a pictorial of Mother Teresa and her work. Finally, in 1995 she had a brief encounter with the living saint during Mother Teresas visit to Atlanta. This renewed Schaefers passion to photograph the nun in her natural surroundings and share a different view of Mother Teresa with the world.
This was not an easy task. Mother Teresa was opposed to "another book" about her. As she put it, "Too many people are making money and none of it gets to the poor who really need it." After accepting a challenge from Mother Teresa to put her cameras down and go to work in the orphanages and houses of the dying, Schaefer finally received the answer to her prayers. Mother Teresa penned a note to Schaefer granting her complete and unfettered access to her facilities, the Missionaries of Charity, the international team of volunteers, and thousands of the poor and sick. In the process, Schaefer was gifted with many life changing experiences, including crying in the arms of the living saint.
Mother Teresa also gave Schaefer a verbal directive: Show the real world in which I live and work. Not too many photographs of me. Focus on the work, not on me”, declared Mother Teresa. These words were transforming. I said yes and have never stopped being fully committed to this.” The result of Schaefers experiences, Come and See, is a book created around the dictates of Mother Teresa, who wanted the people who picked it up to see Mother Teresas world” – to see, hear and smell” the environment in which she lived and shared her love. Come and See combines the text of Schaefers handwritten journal with 160 full color photographs selected from the thousands Schaefer took as she lived and worked with the Missionaries of Charity and the international team of volunteers in the various facilities run by Mother Teresa throughout India. I just want people to be moved by the compassion that she had,” Schaefer said.
A photographer by trade and an artist by intuition, Schaefers work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Paris Match, Stern, and the Catholic Digest, to name a few. Schaefer received grants that allowed her to document The Face of America” during the presidential campaign of 1988. Her work was exhibited at both the Democrat and Republican conventions that year, and CNN featured her documentary.
Schaefer began her career as a journalist for CNN in 1985 but found she couldnt put aside her first love, still photography. Her passion for documentary work, fueled by the fact that she had lived in Brazil in her childhood, led her to explore and photograph the Amazon. In the southeastern basin of the river, she documented the indigenous tribe known as the Xevante. In 1993 Schaefer traveled with a Christian medical relief team to Romania, where she photographed the events in the wake of the end of the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. She then turned her attention to Croatia and war-torn Bosnia. In 1995 Schaefer had her first contact with Mother Teresa, who was visiting Atlanta, and several months later Schaefer began living and working with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
Schaefer resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her son, Paul, and continues to honor the work of Mother Teresa by speaking to groups and organizations. As Mother Teresa often commented, Each person can make a difference.” That is what Linda seeks to accomplish through her work.
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