At the funeral for my father in law, Harry Harris, 1930-2015
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LUXE LXIV is the framework for the photography of Dave Ortiz. Dave has been making and working with images for over 15 years. He is presently the Head of Digital Imaging at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is available for digital imaging consultation. Previously he was the head photographer at The New York Public Library and he was a photo editor at Natural History magazine from 1992 - 2000. He currently lives in Maplewood, NJ.
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Thank you so much, David, for sharing these powerful images of the funeral rites for your father-in-law.
My sympathies at your loss.
Having experienced the deaths of both of my parents over the past two years there was much to recognise in both the rawness and the warmth glimpsed in these moments of family ritual. Like you I have found the construction of a photographic record of that time (gleaned from the iPhone I carried with me from hospital to cemetery) both a therapeutic tool, – creating meaning from loss, – and an important historical record.
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s … mortality, vulnerability, mutability.” (Susan Sontag).
Amen to that!
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Thank you so much, David, for sharing these powerful images of the funeral rites for your father-in-law.
My sympathies at your loss.
Having experienced the deaths of both of my parents over the past two years there was much to recognise in both the rawness and the warmth glimpsed in these moments of family ritual. Like you I have found the construction of a photographic record of that time (gleaned from the iPhone I carried with me from hospital to cemetery) both a therapeutic tool, – creating meaning from loss, – and an important historical record.
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s … mortality, vulnerability, mutability.” (Susan Sontag).
Amen to that!