Lawrence Criner - A Passionate Eye

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Lawrence Criner started out as a journalist. His working day was spent relating to the world through the written word. Then life threw him a hardball: he was struck with Parkinson's disease. "It has forced me to make many life changes, not the least of which is a perceptual shift in how I correspond with the world around me," says Criner, who is senior editor of the Modern Thought section at The World & I.

"Nowadays, my passion has turned increasingly to seeking truth and beauty through photography. Nature is perhaps the most vital metaphor for life." In it he sees the perpetual cycles of birth and death, agony and ecstasy.

"Actually, as a photographer …