“Memory believes before knowing remembers.” William Faulkner On a recent visit back home, I went through a bunch of my Fathers’s old slides. This photo is one of many he took while I was growing up, but haven’t seen the light of day in many years. It has been wonderful to rediscover them. This shot […]
This photo of my mom was taken on her wedding day in 1979, at her sister and husband’s home, on a mountain top. I love so many of my parent’s wedding photos, but my mom’s portraits, particularly this one, really stand out. I love how she is surrounded by nature, I love the elegant way […]
My grandparents in the late 1940s in Michigan, where my grandfather grew up. They had just recently gotten engaged and my grandma was meeting my grandpa’s parents for the first time! She came to New York from Russia; he was a Lieutenant in the US Navy. My grandma was working at Bloomingdales in Manhattan when […]
Here’s to dads. Here’s to the patriarchs who helped us start our stories. Here’s to the father-figures who inspired us to keep writing our life stories, one step at a time. In honor of father-figures everywhere, we’re celebrating dads all week. My remarkable father, who I miss every day, would have turned 100 this summer. […]
Last Thanksgiving, my partner Jack and I sat at his grandparents’ dining room table and stared out at a sea of strangers. These strangers were not our dinner guests; they were the fading and crinkled faces on hundreds of old photographs spread over the table. They poured out of shoeboxes and albums, across a plastic plaid […]
All of the events that happened and choices that were made to get me to where I am today amaze me. This is a photograph of my mom at 12. As her daughter, I can see all the weight of her future in this image. This was before JFK was assassinated, before she protested Vietnam, […]
I just can’t help dreaming of road trips; it must be in my blood! That’s my Grandma Jeanne and my two aunts heading out west in the late 40’s. My grandpa Aug took tons of pictures, a need which I also seem to have inherited. The thing that strikes me most when I look at […]
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 […]
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