The Family Imprint

The Family Imprint (originally titled Cancer Family) is an intimate story of family, as two people, my parents, underwent parallel treatments for stage-four cancer, side-by-side. The story looks at love and life in the face of mortality. It honors my parents’ memory by focusing on their strength and love, both individually and together, and shares the story of their final chapters, which came to a close just 364 days apart from one another. In a sense, the story in its final form, the book, is meant to feel like a scrapbook—and is filled with decades of saved loved letters, keepsakes and other clues about our lives, enriching the larger story which I had been photographing for a few years already. Death, much like life, is a part of the universal human experience and my family had no choice but to talk about it. This was a gift, however, because by acknowledging the finitude and gaining an awareness of the fragility of time, we were able to appreciate what we had left and learn what it truly means to live.