G Photography and Films

08/26/2026

A Father Among His Sons. Fr. Berg, Superior General FSSP

Last Sunday we had the privilege of photographing the Very Rev. John Berg, FSSP, Superior General of the FSSP North American Province: Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, during his visit to St. Mary’s in Conshohocken, PA.

There are occasions in the life of a parish that deserve to be remembered.

Years ago, I photographed the visit of the previous Superior General, Father Andrzej Komorowski, to St. Mary’s. Looking back at those images now reminds me why I believe so strongly in creating a visual archive of the life of the Church. Priests come and go. Children at the altar grow into men. Seminarians become priests. Years pass. But photographs allow a parish to remember: He was here. This happened here. This was part of our Catholic story.

And sometimes the quieter photographs tell us the most.

Before Mass, in the sacristy, I watched Fr. Berg interact with the young altar servers, seminarians, and his brother priests. He has a wonderfully warm smile, and there was an ease and kindness about him in those candid moments that struck me. It was a small but beautiful glimpse of pastoral fatherhood.

That seems especially fitting for a man entrusted with the spiritual welfare of an international fraternity of priests. Fr. Berg has spoken of the responsibility of a superior to look after the spiritual good of his priests and of the importance of priests who can truly be fathers to the men entrusted to their formation.

As we share these photographs, perhaps we can do something more…encourage PRAYER.

Pray for Fr. Berg. Pray for our priests. Pray for the seminarians who will become the fathers of future generations of Catholics.

Consider adding this petition to your daily prayers or after your Rosary:

O Jesus, Eternal High Priest, we pray for Your servant, Father John Berg, Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. Grant him wisdom, prudence, fortitude, and holiness as he shepherds the priests and seminarians entrusted to his care. Keep him close to Your Sacred Heart, strengthen him in every trial, and preserve the Fraternity in fidelity to its charism and to Your Church. Through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Peter, guide his every decision for the salvation of souls and the greater glory of God. Amen.

St. Peter, pray for him.
Our Lady, Mother of Priests, pray for him.
St. John Vianney, pray for him.

Another small piece of the Church's history, preserved in photographs. Downloadable Album - Full Gallery linked in comments.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.
Allison Girone and Annie Girone

08/22/2026

Southern California friends, come meet John **TUESDAY** night.
Some of you know John as the other half of . Others know him through his filmmaking and the beautiful work he has been creating in the Catholic world.
But what you may not know is how much thought, faith and purpose lies behind the camera.
For years, our family has felt called to do something rather unusual: to photograph and film the Catholic faith beautifully, reverently and honestly. To preserve moments that disappear almost as soon as they happen. The elevation of the Host. Incense rising toward Heaven. A bride and groom kneeling before the altar. A priest quietly offering the Holy Sacrifice. The faces of the faithful.
John grew up inside that mission and has now taken it into filmmaking, asking an important question for this generation:
How can we use the tools of modern media to point people toward what is eternal?
On **TUESDAY** evening, August 25 at 7 PM, John will be speaking about Catholic filmmaking, creativity, faith, and what it means to tell Catholic stories through a lens.
There will also be a Q&A, so bring your questions.
If you're a young Catholic, photographer, filmmaker, artist, storyteller, or simply someone who believes that Beauty can lead souls toward God, I think you'll enjoy this evening.
And as his mother and the person who first put a camera in his hands, I might be just a little biased, but I think you'll enjoy hearing what he has to say.
TUESDAY, August 25 • 7 PM
Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church 's in JPII Garden
515 W Opp St.
Wilmington, CA 90744
Bring a friend. And please share this with someone in Southern California who might want to come.
St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, pray for us.

08/21/2026

Seeing someone else worship, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒖𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓.

We recognize the longing in 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐅𝐔𝐋 (Final batch from Assumption TLM 2026)

St. Augustine wrote, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”

Maybe that is what we see in these faces. For a few moments, the noise of the world falls away and the soul turns toward God. And somehow, simply witnessing it calls us to do the same.

This is one of the reasons we love photographing the Mass. Not only to preserve its beauty, but to preserve these quiet witnesses to faith. The diversity of our skin colors, yet our unity in Catholicism so on display under these sacred arches.

The faces of the faithful remind us where our restless hearts will finally find their rest.

Ad Jesum per Mariam.

Archiving not only the rites and beauty of the Church, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅. Allison Girone with Miriam Cunningham, Annie Girone and Katharine Drain

LINK to full album in comments.

08/20/2026

ONE MOTHER. ONE FAITH. ONE ALTAR.

There is something extraordinary about watching the great Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia fill for the Solemnity of the Assumption. (COMPLETE ALBUM LINKED IN COMMENTS - stay tuned for next post, Faces of the Faithful)

Priests and religious. Knights and families. Young children beside grandparents. Faithful coming from different parishes, dioceses, states and walks of life.

Different stories. Different vocations. Different generations. Different ethnicities.

And yet, beneath the soaring dome of one of America's most beautiful Cathedrals, we are reminded that we belong to something far greater than ourselves.

One Church. One Faith. One Mother.

For twenty-six years, Father Robert Pasley and Mater Ecclesiae Chapel have gathered the faithful for this annual Mass of Thanksgiving honoring Our Lady's Assumption into Heaven. What began in 2001 eventually grew beyond the churches that first welcomed it, finding a magnificent home for these past years at the Cathedral Basilica in Philadelphia.

And year after year, the Church's treasures are brought gloriously to life.

Incense rising.
Gregorian chant.
Choir and orchestra.
Clergy processing toward the altar.
Young servers learning the ancient gestures handed down before them.
A Cathedral filled with the prayers of the faithful.

The pageantry is beautiful, but it points beyond itself. It reminds us that Catholic means universal. Across nations and centuries, languages and generations, we are children of the same Church, kneeling before the same Lord and entrusted from the Cross to the same Mother.

There is an old verse that seems especially fitting:

“Four things in any land must dwell,
If it endures and prospers well:
One is manhood true and good;
One is noble womanhood;
One is child life, clean and bright;
And an altar kept alight.”

An altar kept alight. Perhaps that is part of what moves us so deeply each year. In a world that changes almost by the hour, here is something received rather than invented. Something beautiful handed from one generation to another.

Father Pasley has spent decades tending that flame, and we are profoundly grateful for his friendship and his constant encouragement of our work at Latin Mass Photographer and G Photography and Films. For years, he has welcomed our cameras as we try, in our own small way, to preserve what happens here. Because someday these photographs will become history.

A child in these images will be grown.
An altar boy may become a priest.
Families will change.
Generations will pass.

But the photographs will testify:

We were here.
We believed.
We worshipped.
We kept the altar alight.

And above us, as always, was Our Mother. Our Lady Assumed into Heaven, pray for us.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.


G Photography and Films
Capturing the Sacred in Still and Moving Images. - Allison Girone with Annie Girone, Miriam Cunningham, and Katherine Drain

08/15/2026

Harrison and Tanya’s Latin Mass wedding at St. Patrick’s in Wilmington was a homecoming for us!

Annie and I had the joy of photographing their wedding in the church where she grew up, and where our own family grew to know and love the Traditional Latin Mass. Then, somehow, our Steubenville life came home to Delaware with us.

Harrison and Tanya are friends from Steubenville, and their wedding brought together people we love from both places. There were familiar priests and deacons at the altar, and altar boys we had watched grow up now serving this beautiful Nuptial Mass. 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬.

And then there was the incense.

St. Patrick’s is still one of those glorious churches where the incense truly fills the church, rising and lingering in the light, a visible reminder of prayer ascending toward Heaven.

“𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕.”

Perhaps that is a beautiful image for marriage, too. Two lives offered to God together. Two lives becoming one prayer.

Tanya was an exquisite bride, wearing one of the prettiest wedding gowns I have ever photographed. And every detail seemed to carry meaning.

Harrison and Tanya chose to marry on the Feast of St. Dominic, and gave their guests prayer cards bearing a prayer to this great saint. Another small but beautiful reminder that a Catholic marriage never begins alone. It begins surrounded by the Church on earth and, we pray, by the friendship and intercession of the saints in Heaven.

May St. Dominic intercede for Harrison and Tanya throughout all the years ahead.

And may their marriage, like the incense that filled St. Patrick’s on their wedding day, continually rise as an offering of love and praise to God.

Ad multos annos, Harrison and Tanya.

08/10/2026

Just 24 hours after posting…already about 1 million views and 155, 000 likes!

Because is Beautiful and inspiring, drawing souls.

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08/07/2026

...the richest wedding details are often the ones carrying generations of love and faith.

08/04/2026

Another John Girone Catholic Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86BgJUgfOgMfor USC Caruso Catholic Center.

We accompanied Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament throughout th...

08/02/2026

50 years a priest! Father John Perricone