December 17, 2011
My father recently sent me a photograph of himself when he was my age in the 70s. When I first saw the photograph I immediately had questions about who he was at the time the photograph was taken. My father appears to have changed dramatically since those times. I asked him to send me as many photos as he could find from those days so I could learn more about him. While I was sifting through the photos, I thought about how the photos I have of me now (Facebook, Yearbooks etc.) would shape the image of who I was for people who didn’t know me at that time. I wanted to have photos like these ones so eventually my children could have this same experience. I thought about recreating the photographs, but I felt that wouldn’t properly express my idea. Instead, I created photos that compliment the image and tell the viewer who we were, by showing how we were different (or not so different). Here is one of the images from the series.

My father recently sent me a photograph of himself when he was my age in the 70s. When I first saw the photograph I immediately had questions about who he was at the time the photograph was taken. My father appears to have changed dramatically since those times. I asked him to send me as many photos as he could find from those days so I could learn more about him. While I was sifting through the photos, I thought about how the photos I have of me now (Facebook, Yearbooks etc.) would shape the image of who I was for people who didn’t know me at that time. I wanted to have photos like these ones so eventually my children could have this same experience. I thought about recreating the photographs, but I felt that wouldn’t properly express my idea. Instead, I created photos that compliment the image and tell the viewer who we were, by showing how we were different (or not so different). Here is one of the images from the series.

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