Preacher’s Daughter

“Preachers Daughter” is a compiled photo series inspired by and depicting musician Ethel Cain. Photographer Helen Kirbo documented their time together as friends for the past several years, achieving her rise to fame, along with Kirbo’s own religious experiences.

“I can’t ever remember a time where I felt strongly in my belief. But it was something I kind of played the part of, especially with my parents being religious and going to church on Sunday. As my life began to change around twelve or thirteen, I began to come into my own person. I stopped being religious which my parents did not understand or accept.”

– Helen Kirbo

Her and I grew up close together, she lived in a town forty-five minutes south of my hometown. There was this bonding experience of similar experiences we had not only in the church, but growing up. It’s the default exploration into the traumas of the church in the way that it can sometimes traumatize someone, especially young queer people.