Photography has played an important role in my life almost as long as I can remember. One of my earliest childhood memories shows a row of black-and-white pictures hanging from a clothesline in my father’s darkroom. Not long thereafter, I was given my own first camera and thus began my life behind the lens. For a while, I took the kinds of pictures every child would have taken: the cat, little birds, hardly visible on the print. But one day, the way I approached picture-taking changed forever. My grandmother was a wonderful woman – knowledgeable, strong,...more
