Family Portrait

For my family portrait project, I had so many different ideas however, none of them were accomplished due to the quarantine. I was really frustrated and sad with all the ideas I had go down the drain. It was really hard trying to figure out a family portrait. I recreated three other different pictures, but I was not happy with any of them. Finally, I decided to scan my favorite picture on to my laptop of my mom and my grandparents. This photograph is special because it’s one of the last photos my mom has with her parents. Recreating this picture took longer than the other photographs I took because my little brother couldn’t stop laughing when he would hear the beeping sound of the timer of my camera and I running to quickly get in the picture which almost caused me to trip on the tripod and make the camera out of focus. After a couple of pictures, I was satisfied with one picture because it is such an accurate of who we are as a family. Both my mom and I have crazy hair sticking out, my mom per usual looks serious, I try to look serious but always have a small smile on my face, and my little brother smiling because he can’t be serious at all when taking pictures. It represents our crazy loving family. I decided to choose where we sat because it has a significant meaning behind it. I sat on the right side representing my mom because I hope to be as strong as she is with what life throws at her, while she sat in the middle representing my grandma since she always says my grandma was the glue that hold the craziness in and now my mom is the glue holding my brother and I from not going crazy because of the quarantine, and my little brother sat on the left side representing my grandpa not only because he is the only male, but also how many other family members always mention how my little brother is starting to show resemblance to our grandpa. It was a perfect fit. I decided to be a risk-taker and make a double exposure photograph again because I wanted to capture essence of generations of the past and future all in one therefore, black and white photograph seemed like a perfect fit. The end result of this project gave me a wave of sadness because I was very close to both my grandparents and seeing the comparison of them to my mom and brother reminded me that although someone might not be with us on earth anymore it doesn’t mean they aren’t part of us.

” El amor de la familia es para siempre.” “The love of the family is forever.”