Tyler Hick's Images of Voice

If you missed the magazine in this past Sunday's New York Times you missed an amazing collect of photographs by old pal Tyler Hicks.

Tyler Hicks, who has worked as a news photographer for The New York Times in recent years covering the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, took a break from combat zones earlier this year to photograph choirs from the mountains of Bulgaria to the hills of northern Alabama, with stops along the way in both Georgia the state and Georgia the country. He photographed choirs with international followings and others little known outside their towns; choirs that sing folk songs of identity and belonging and others whose only motivation in raising their voices is religious devotion.