Philly photographer’s e-book reveals life at summer season camp for Jewish women

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As summer season begins its wind-down in Philadelphia, a South Philly photographer is presenting a photograph undertaking documenting Jewish women through the formative interval of summer season camp.

Rachel Wisniewski’s e-book “L’dor Vador” follows 13 women, aged 10–13, over a interval of three summers between 2021 and 2023 at Camp Nah-Jee-Wah, a 102-year-old Jewish summer season camp within the Poconos.

“Anyone can look through these photos and remember a simpler time before anxiety and taxes and things like that, when summers were just the most magical thing,” Wisniewski mentioned. “Having that break off of school and getting to have control over your life and your schedule, which you don’t get otherwise as a kid.”

The self-published e-book is filled with swimming, cluttered cabins and friendship bracelets. Days are spent swimming and braiding hair whereas nights are stuffed with bonfires and flashlights in bunks.

Camp Nah-Jee Wah is a co-ed camp, however boys not often seem within the images, and after they do, it’s by likelihood. Adults are equally scarce. “L’dor Vador” portrays a world of women residing each second with each other for 2 months.

“Something that the girls have said to me is that they’ve become a lot closer with each other than with their school friends because they’re spending every single hour together. They’re falling asleep together, they’re showering together, they’re eating meals together,” Wisniewski mentioned. “It really was only each other that they saw.”