I always found photographing my children to be a completely different experience for than photographing other peoples children. While I wanted more than anything to capture the essence of my children in an artistic, beautiful way, I found that our relationship would often get in the way of that. When I wanted to be a fly on the wall, they would want to look at my camera and I would interrupt what they were doing or alternatively I couldn’t get them to simply respond to me when I needed them too because they were able to tune out my voice! I decided that doing a project where all I needed to do was take one image a week for a year might help. Each week I would photograph one or all my my three sons with a theme in mind for that week.
The first weeks theme is evening rituals.
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This is Leo asking me for just one more minute!
The evening ritual of prising Leo away from his computer!
I hear him plead a few times before I eventually close the game and hand him a toothbrush.
