In December 2023, with Mathew home from college, we engaged portrait photographer Nan Phelps to make a family photo of the six of us. Nan worked the old-fashioned way: with film and a medium format camera.
I’m pleased with the results, because I think they represent us as we are, not in an idealized and retouched way. Spending the time and resources on this kind of portraiture is, I believe, a gift to our future selves because we are together now, but in the future may not be.
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