Being a journalism student, I had to take pictures for some of my classes and articles that I wrote for the Daily Campus.
Here’s a gallery of my photos. Click on an image to view larger and to read the caption.
Portraits: My dad, Cedric Durafour
This is a portrait series of my father, a man who did not have an easy life, but who keeps moving forward.
We both laughed because we were both embarrassed the assignment. Taking a portrait is way more intimate than a regular picture. So it was very new, and amusing.
I wanted to capture the wall art and the sentence under it because they go along perfectly, but they do not represent the same thing for him. The knitted flower was made by my great-grandmother, and it is something that my father remember from his childhood. It was always on her bed, and he sees it as one of the rare sweet memory of his childhood. When she passed away, my father’s aunt kept it, and she gave it to him last summer when he went back to France with his wife and step-daughter.
The sentence is in old regional French and means “the sun makes me sing.” While on their trip, my sister met my father youngest sister. They both are the same age, but they were very shy, and did not try to communicate which made my father angry. So he decided to make them scream “I love sun” to get passed that shyness. Then, while on the road, they saw that sentence, written on the walls of an old house in the middle of nowhere, My dad thought of it as a sign.
Taking portraits was new for me, so at first I was very shy about it. I started to take some pictures that mostly looked the same, and my dad, an eternal kid started to joke around. Doing those kind of things represent him very well, since he always does stuff like that.
My dad also loves making fire. I think that fire is something comforting for him. His look is focused on the action, but there is no fear, just calmness.