A Picture Says A Thousand Words, Get Your Portrait Taken and Be Part of the Community Storytelling Project John Pankratz is a History Professor at Albright and he calls himself an amateur photographer. Some would disagree with the word ‘amateur’. John takes 700 to 800 pictures a week. Ten years ago during summer break he was looking for subject material for his hobby. Inspired by group projects like Matthew Brady’s, who took everyone’s picture who came by Broadway during the 50’s, John decided to photograph as many ordinary citizens of Reading as possible in order to tell the community story in photos.