Kathryn Bacon Goldman made a promise to her mother last Christmas that she was going to get her a family portrait as a gift. Her mom, Ellen, takes great pictures of the family but she’s never in any of them. Kathryn had good intentions of completing the portrait quickly but several months had gone by...
Category Archives: Family Stories
Run for the Border
This a new installment of a blog post that was originally published on April 28, 2010. Back in April 2002 I photographed the wedding of Marisa Ferguson and Michael Kelly. I remembered them well as they were journalists like me, and thus shared a bond. I knew that after the wedding, Michael took the foreign...
Anatomy of a BIG Family Photo
I am one of four children. I would absolutely LOVE to have a photo of our whole family- my parents, my siblings, their spouses and kids. This kind of thing would be a logistical nightmare to coordinate as we are rarely all together, but it would be so worth it! I would cherish those prints...