Ghosts

Originally Posted Saturday, October 4, 2014

If you have been coming here for awhile, you will remember this girl, Slava Pirsky and Anna Hayat's daughter Alex.  This is the last photo he posted of her some time ago.  You will notice.  She is changing, of course, the aging around the jawline and the eyes and around the corners of the mouth.  I kid only slightly.  I loved the series of photographs they made of her, but childhood is fleeting and she is but a dream.  Perhaps it will be too hard to make pictures of her as an adolescent.  I've written toColin Pantall about this as he has photographed his own daughter as well.  A father's photographs of a daughter is different than any other photographed.  I will never know the psychology of it, but I am fascinated.  Neither of them has been posting pictures from this series for some time.  My fear is that what is not photograph is lost.  I've experienced that. 

Here is a series of photographs of four sisters taken over forty years.  It is a powerful series.  Look at the first image, then the last, then go back through them in order one by one.  Nothing lasts but the pictures and even those will fade away.  Still, I kick myself for every picture not taken--by me or by others.