This project was a collaboration with my parents, Paula Temple and Adrian Baron-Robbins. Together, we set out to create portraits of one another. We rotated roles between conceptualizer, photographer, and model: one person designed the idea, one person captured it through the lens, and one person was the model. Sometimes two roles were combined, one of us both posed and created the concept, or photographed and directed. Every combination revealed something different about how we see each other. My mother, a painter, gave instructions that resulted in photographs with similarities to her artwork. My father is a musician and an architect, he had no experience composing a photograph and the portraits he took are marked by his lifelong hand tremor, giving the images an unexpected fragility. When it was my turn, I used photography to explore my relationship with them, sometimes including myself in the frame, sometimes capturing them the way I remember seeing them as a child.

to be continued