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WHY I CREATE LEGACY PORTRAITS ON FILM I create artful, magazine-style environmental portraits using real black and white or color film, create archival prints, matted, framed and ready for display. Traditional darkroom hand-printing is also available. These
legacy portraits, printed and framed, will last for generations and
are experienced on a daily basis in your home, on your walls. I believe
they
reflect the subject's personality in a more meaningful way rather
than as computer folders full of digital snapshots, images stored
on hard drives somewhere, or buried in a phone. So, I'm working on a photo documentary, a project close to my heart and for the community, making portraits of seniors of all ages living at their homes and at senior facilities. It’s important that seniors know that even at an advanced age, they are valuable and they should be documented and celebrated, and their photograph needs to be made. They’ve reached a huge milestone, having lived a good long life. Let’s document it. I bring a background and lights. I set up a small studio so they look their best. Make it a big deal--announce it and give them a time to shine, to dress up and look their sharpest. It's a big deal to be a big deal. There’s no cost--this project is not about profit. They each get a print, too. It’s a personal project to make photos of the most important subject that is often overlooked or left out of photographs as they advance in age, certainly not dressed up for a formal photograph. Again, it's totally free. I schedule these sessions around my working freelance schedule. This is a project about documenting their wonderful faces for future generations to remember them, to know who their ancestors were. Family photographs are historic photographs, and there won't be any if, as futurists predict, most of the photographs from today will be lost to computer failures and obsolescence. Their photograph will last because their photograph is printed--that's the key to making sure our seniors' faces aren't lost to a digital dark age. Please call me to get on your schedule. I am photographing at other area senior facilities, too, so need to work your senior community's session into my calendar. Shoots are available in Denver, Boulder and throughout the front range and the western slope through 2019, when the project will be relocated to Los Angeles. ABOUT
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