my grandpa, i love him!
he's 84 btw
my mom says i got his nose and big ears...lol
lit with a 120x30(cm) striplight to his left that was triggered by a SB24 fired from the camera against the ceiling for fill light.
this is totally candid, he was reading "Hiob" by Joseph Roth and didn't even notice me setting up the lights and taking shots of him. ;)
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Portraits generally don't do much for me. This is an exception though. I'm a dark person I suppose, but it seems more real to me than a posed, less spontaneous looking shots.
He put his head in his hands in despair. Something that used to be so simple, was now so out of reach. Smacking the table in anger, followed by a tear of pure frustration, he struggled so hard to remember. So hard to recollect.
As his nurse came to place a blanket around his shoulders and lead him into bed, the tears fell a little more freely. Perhaps tomorrow it would return to him. Sometimes it did, you know. Sometimes it was like he was 20 again. Today, however, was not that day, and as he drifted off to sleep, sorrow in his heart and frustration in his brain, he prayed to whatever would hear him that tomorrow would be that day.
That tomorrow he'd be able to remember his daughter's name once again.
powerfully evocative image--almost as if this is just too private a moment to see, to photograph. technically excellent, as well. I googled the title, seems like "wisdom"--but the image feels sorrowful to me....8
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