Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

Today I wanted to share some pictures from an older series. This was the first time I photographed any subject I had a passion for, and the act of photographing was something that deepened my relationship with my family. I owe something to my camera for that, because without it I may have lived a completely different life, probably a bit more lonely. I started photographing my family at a time when it was announced my parents would leave the country, and it felt like the beginning of the end. This was not a clean break, they would leave my sister to be a single mother, and with a financial situation that was unstable at best. I felt the need to photograph this moment in time where we would all still be under the same roof. The American Dream had not been too great of a success for them, leaving them with old bodies that cost more to take care of then they could earn, and children that sucked their resources like leeches, in the name of love. I wanted to preserve this familial bond as long as I could, as I knew it would wither away shortly after.