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Photos of Harold Camping just before and after the predicted May 21 rapture.
On Sunday morning, when Harold Camping awoke to clocks ticking, clouds moving, a world still existing, his response was one of bewilderment. At least, that's what he told photographer Brandon Tauszik.
The Oakland-based photographer has been shadowing Camping and his congregation for the past few weeks, before and immediately after Camping's predicted May 21 "rapture." Tauszik, who considers himself Christian, says he was fascinated by the people responsible for the billboards and flyers that warned of End Times.
Harold Camping inside the Family Radio compound in Oakland, Calif.
Tauszik attended church services with them, and found the congregation to be not a group of radicals, but "families, middle-class ... normal people," he says, who thought they had an answer.
Camping, 89, is an engineer and founder of Family Radio, a Christian radio network. The self-taught Bible teacher convinced many of his listeners that the end was near as well. Many people quit their jobs and left their families, and some gave away their money to the cause.
Now that day has come and gone, and followers are trying to figure out what to believe. Was this another miscalculation, they ask, or did a "spiritual judgment" take place Saturday that we could not see on Earth? Some believe God withheld his judgment to give more people time to confess, and some simply say Camping was wrong now like he was with his earlier prediction of a 1994 rapture.
"I mean, Camping is 89," Tauszik says. "I don't know how much, at that age, you have left in you to do this whole media spectacle again. His attitude Sunday was very defeated."
The very next day, Camping said in a broadcast that his calculations were off, that he's not going to discuss Judgment Day anymore but that the world will be destroyed on Oct. 21. As he spoke, Tauszik captured Camping, once again, calm, cool and collected.
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