My Parents At Seder Dinner

Much of my photos are of my family. That's natural, so it is with family that i get to try out different ways of shooting people. My kids, my wife (not cooperative), and my parents, when I see them these days. I saw this perspective during the seder - my mother in the forground looking intently at something or someone, my dad reading, as he likes to do, and following the event and the prayers. The calm and the watchful. With a bit of matzoh and masks.

Night of Dread - 2009

The blurred image is significant. Sometimes it is the opposite of what convention calls for. Sometimes convention is anti-everything perfect, and blur is cool. But blurring is also a way of conveying how I see some things. The movement, the action, the light - al displaced, as if we are witnessing the event unfold in our eyes.

This was October 2009 at the Dufferin Grove Night of Dread Parade. The Clay and Paper Theatre Company creates the puppets, stilt walking costumes and giant heads that mingle with the crowds. I imagined what this might look like to my children, especially when they were a bit younger. It is a special, thrilling and mysterious feeling that rushes through them and creates memories. So - sometimes I like to to try and re-imagine what those feeling must look and feel like visually.