Photographer Shannon Taggart Takes a Peek into Spiritualism

For twenty years, photographer Shannon Taggart has been taking pictures of the world’s largest Spiritualist community in Lily Dale, New York - and other smaller communities worldwide.

In her exciting quest to capture the invisible, Ms. Taggart achieved surprising results. Her search for the ectoplasm – a substance believed to be both spiritual and material - led her to explore not only the tricks of the trade and its neglected photographic history, but also its lesser-known links to science, prominent historical and intellectual figures, and the women's rights movement.