This summer Liz Bradbury spent a month in Florida, rising each day before dawn and walking seven miles along the beach while photographing the sunrise. She ended with 49 photos to memorialize the 49 people who were killed in the June mass shooting at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando.
“Each photo,” Bradbury said in a statement, “that may bring hope and would at least show us beauty in the world, was dedicated to a victim of the massacre, with that person’s name … because names are important to help us remember.”
Viewers can see an exhibit of Bradbury’s photos at the Allentown LGBT center that bears the names of her and her partner, Dr. Patricia Sullivan. Bradbury, a longtime activist in the Lehigh Valley, also works as the training institute director at the center.
“Photographs Dedicated to Orlando” opens 7 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, 522 W. Maple St. The exhibit will be on display through the end of August.
Each photo includes a brief remembrance of the person to which it is dedicated.
Adrian Shanker, executive director of Bradbury-Sullivan, said in a statement that the exhibit would help the community “continue to mourn the victims, heal our communal wounds and remember that more work is needed for the LGBT community to be free from violence.”
Bradbury-Sullivan also hosted a rally in June with more than 250 people. They marched from Candida’s Bar in Allentown to Stonewall Lehigh Valley and raised $5,496 for the GLBT Community Center of Central Florida.