grandpa + I

Images coming soon…

When I was 7-years old, my grandfather (on my mother’s side) and my father passed away within two weeks of each other. I feel like this was one of the driving forces behind me becoming a photographer, documenting bits and pieces of all facets of my life. A few years ago, I came across a selection of slides that my grandfather took and was incredibly shocked to discover that some of our images were eerily alike. I decided that we would collaborate, and hoped that wherever he was, that he would be just as excited about “our” series as I was.

In 1999 on a family trip with my mom and sister, I traveled to Japan for the first and only time. Most of this collaboration is comprised of images I took there, where I shot with my first real camera, a 35mm Canon Elan IIe.