My mom was diagnosed and hospitalized with schizophrenia when I was very young. She remained hospitalized until passing away 10 years ago. I didn’t know her as well as I would have liked, well not in the traditional sense, but I knew her well through stories shared in my family. The few childhood memories I […]
This week was my MeMe’s birthday. Here she is, young and beautiful, with her sister. MeMe passed away in 2001 at the early age of 61, just a couple of weeks after she was diagnosed with Leukemia. I’m a photographer, so photos are a big part of my life. I don’t have many pictures of […]
Remember you are a gatekeeper to unique family stories. When you ask questions and kickstart a conversation, you reveal why every family should take time to talk about their old analog photos. While we were together for Easter Sunday this year, I asked my grandmother to pull out some photographs of my mother as child. The […]
My mom and her sister are inseparable. I’ve learned so much and leaned on them both throughout my life. Aunt Sharon is like a second mom to me, and she’s amazing. I love spending time with them both and watching them still be each other’s best friends. This is probably one of my favorite photos […]
My amazing mother with her amazing mother, late 1950’s Japan. My grandmother was the first woman in her town to wear pants, ride a bicycle and alongside my grandfather, she raised dozens of children who were orphaned or abandoned after World War II (my mother is the youngest of her four biological children). What they […]
My grandmother, Agnes Fay, and her twin sister, Gussie May – known as Fay and May. They were born 100 years ago on April 21, 1915 in Coleman, Texas. From what I know and remember about them, they were more than twin sisters. They were best friends. They shared the sweetest bond, dressing alike from […]
Meet my late mother, Alethia. She was born in 1939 to a single mother who was blind and could not keep her. Her mother, Elizabeth, gave her away to her aunt, Charity. This photo was taken circa 1956 at the height of segregation in the U.S. The sweater she was wearing is turned on the […]
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” – Karl Lagerfeld These three crazy kids are my grandma, Ingrid, with my dad and aunt at the beach in the mid-1950’s. My grandpa is the family photographer and recently gave my cousin a bunch of terrific photos […]
This is a man who I remember as a child sitting in his living room rocking chair. He didn’t say much of anything. He was meek and quiet, he led by example, never raised his voice and was kind. I remember as a little girl adoring the swing he put into the tree for me; […]
This is my great-grandmother Borghild, “Bobbie,” when she was about 16. She’s laughing it up and being goofy on an unknown gentleman’s shoulders at one of Chicago’s beaches in the 1910’s. Nana would sneak me and my brother into her room when we’d come over to my grandma’s for dinner (Nana lived with my grandparents […]
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