Outside General Conference
Twice a year around 100,000 Mormons pilgrimage to Temple Square, the historic religious center of Salt Lake City, Utah. They have come to general conference, a semi-annual, weekend long series of meetings conducted by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). At the meetings church authority preach sermons, give guidance, and conduct general business.

During general conference Temple Square overflows with Mormons, up to 20,000 wait in line for the meetings, while thousands more arrive without tickets and congregate on temple property with friends and family to listen to a live worldwide broadcast of the meetings. Just outside of the temples gates, on the public streets, Mormons are confronted by bands of oppositional evangelical street preachers who have come to vociferously condemn their theology, their founding prophet Joseph Smith, and deny their faith in Jesus. Heated debates have erupted into yelling matches and often into fights, a heavy police presence is necessary. As a counter demonstration young Mormon church choirs sing hymns to try and drown out the name calling, it is also common to see rouge LDS apologists engaging in theological debates with the street preachers drawing the attention of the media.

Outside General Conference is a two-year photographic survey of the social and religious avidity that develops during general conference.