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Aunt Mary
This photo essay is titled Aunt Mary and was shot at my great aunt’s house in Brooklyn, New York, in October of this year. The underlying story is about my Aunt Mary, age 91 and the matriarch of our family, who is suffering from Dementia. Despite her illness, during my visit I viewed our conversations and interactions with each other to be slower, but still intact as it once was a year ago – five years ago – ten years ago. I’ve included photographs that show objects from her home and her surrounding spaces to give the viewer a sense of location, time, culture, and lifestyle. The sequence starts out with light and bright images and moves toward darker ones; a metaphor for her days. Aunt Mary’s mornings are sunny and clear, yet as the day moves on, she becomes cloudy and confused.