Roland Barthes wrote in Camera Lucida about discovering a picture of his mother from her youth in the “Winter Garden” soon after she had died that he felt captured the truth about the face he loved and missed and her essential being.  

Fascinated by the role photographs play in people’s lives, I asked family and friends if there was a special childhood picture that they felt defined them as a child and suggested who they would become as an adult. It required them to revisit a childhood moment and reconcile the grown up portrayed within the child and the child still present within the adult.

This project represents a journey from childhood to adulthood and back again.