Shot in available light, these portraits trace what accumulates in a face over time—the architecture of experience, the evidence of decades lived. Working in the tradition of large-format portraiture, I turned the camera on my father, attempting to see him as both subject and inheritance.

The work asks what happens when the photographer and photographed share blood: Does intimacy clarify or complicate the act of looking? Each sitting becomes a negotiation between documentation and recognition, between the father I know and the man who exists independent of me.

This is portraiture as slow study—an attempt to hold still what constantly shifts, to archive what cannot be kept.

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