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2025 Collection
Diego Romero, "A Day off Work," 2025. Work echoes through the head of a mother of two children. It's the only thing that she seems to be able to think of. Her work is what her family of three lives off of. Although, she is tough, even she needs a break for the hardships that she endures. A day off work at the aquarium is a day to cherish with her family. A delightful break from work. Although her smile is not big her heart is content, the giggle from my sister relaxes her soul and lets her know that all the work is worth it.
David Adjemian, "Grandpa," 2024. When my grandfather passed away, I knew before I was even told. The house became tighter, and wardrobes became monochrome. During his funeral, I didn't feel right to be there. I only cried two weeks after, when it finally sunk in after seeing his grave for the second time.
Daniel Curtis, "Brakes," 2024. Over the weekend or some break, I bled the breaks of my dad's 1966 Ford Mustang. I thought it was just going to be me and my dad but my younger brother came up to help as well, to my annoyance. He ended up being actually quite useful, in fact I doubt it could have been done without a third person. One at the brakes (my dad), one at the pedal (my younger brother), and one watching the fluid reservoir (me).
Chyanne Eastmond, "what do you carry?," 2024. This photo represents my West Indian and Caribbean portion of my identity. I used things that represented Barbados and made me think of my heritage.
Chase Judkins, "Failed Fishing," 2024. Settling down on the shore to relax, as the fishing pier was too rocky for the group to traverse.
Addison Galbreath, "Video Games By Tenacious D," 2025. "Video Games" is the best song to describe my dad. He always says he'll stop gaming or he doesn't play games but that's all he does. My sister and girlfriend are in the kitchen? Gaming. On a work call? Gaming. I'm trying to get him to go somewhere? Guess what. Gaming. It's a monotonous cycle. I love my dad, he's great and I get that it takes off the stresses of the day but I would love to see him more often. I would love to be able to hang out with him or even play games with him.
Bowen Kightlinger, "Victory Parade," 2024. I often work as an apprentice to my dad who works as a cameraman for the news in Los Angeles. My Dad and I are big Dodgers fans and bond over Baseball so I jumped at the opportunity to help him film at the victory parade after they won the World Series this year.
Areyto Paredes-Akimoto, "Morning ritual," 2025. My mom works long hours as the head of the DACA program at her office and she usually doesn't get home until late. This time in the morning, is most of the time I get to spend with her throughout the day and I cherish it.
Aridai Perez, "Early BD gift," 2025. The day before my special day, my biological dad invited me to go out and eat, just the two of us. It was a special day being with him because we barely talk to each other, and go on our separate ways. We would usually do a birthday dinner or a special day with my brother and him, but my brother could't make it. He lives 8 hours from here, but at least I got a message from him saying "Happy birthday". My dad and I would go out sometimes, but it barley happens. So this day was a wonderful day, even though he tries to be in my life and help me, he works so hard and travels a lot.
Avery Almora, "Better Than Blood," 2024. This photo is from my senior night as a high school cheerleader, but that's not what makes it beautiful. My stepfather, John, was not there for my birth, but the minute my mom met him he has been there for every award and every performance. He is my father even if he isn't my blood.
Ben Beastrom, "Dust," 2024. I captured a photo of our tool shed, which we use for our agriculture class. The amount of tools and materials represents all of the students this year who have helped with the garden and the students who have helped make the garden in the past. This class allows us to be outside and connect while learning applicable life skills. Not only that, but we feed our school with our greenhouse and garden. We hold community breakfasts and lunches, the staff often cooks for the 39 students, and the students watch and learn how to make their own homestyle dishes.
Cache Henke, "Messy Cooking," 2024. My mom was making us dinner in our kitchen, but did not have a ton of space to use because our countertop was all dirty. My dad is in the background on the porch working so he can get it done before it is late at night. My mom's bags are hanging on the wall to the right. These are her work bags and after she gets home she always hangs them up and then starts making dinner.
Gabriel Aversa, "Thug Life," 2024. _____ and I have been doing this for years. Hiking, going on adventures, and exploring places we probably shouldn't explore. I've known him since middle school and am looking forward to making more adventures and memories with him in the future.
Cache Henke, "Moving Farther Away," 2024. This is a picture of my brother getting his senior pictures taken. The photo is in 0.5, mode on my iPhone, because it makes it feel like he is farther away. In the past few years, we have started to distance ourselves a little bit and he moves off to college next summer. After that, our relationship will probably never be the same.
Gabriel Smith, "Old Age," 2024. Getting old is something that happens to everyone. The more significant the number, maybe there will be a large celebration.
Cache Henke, "Ride to Work," 2024. This photo was taken on the bike ride to my dad's office in Fort Collins. He works at that office around 3 days a week. So when he has the chance, he rides his bike to work because it is calming and fun. This day, I did not have school so I decided to ride with him to work since it sounded nice. We left super early before sunrise and this photo was taken right as the sun came up.
George Kirkley, "Back to the Roots," 2025. It's a little hard to tell, but my dad is talking to my sister. My dad grew up in Texas, and ended in the square state of Wyoming. My sister is over in Texas, and is teaching for middle schoolers. What they're talking about in this photo is that her boyfriend (at the time) is having trouble deciding between a job away from her, and just trying to find something in Texas. All family, including the boyfriend's family, say they should go to Texas. He is now in engaged to my sister.
Aidan Peattie, "Heavy Walking," 2024. This picture was taken after a 6 mile hike, with 3 miles to go. We came across a water tower, and decided to climb it. To our surprise, it was sprayed all over with graffiti, but that wasn't going to stop us from taking a rest to hydrate and save energy.
Hannah Peloquin, "Missing Pieces," 2024. This photo stuck out to me when I was going through old family photos because some of the most important people in my life are depicted, and some of them are gone now. On this day, we celebrated my brother's birthday with our family members. In the picture I'm holding, my brother is holding up one of his gifts as my dad sits next to him and collects the wrapping paper he rips off. Behind my brother, you can see both of my dad's parents, who we called Mémère and Pépère, and my dad's sister. Mémère and Pépère lived in our house with us from the time I was born, to the time they passed away. They were our bonus parents. I remember how hard it was losing them and how it felt like life would never get back on track, but somehow it did. Now, my brother is in the military and I find myself feeling the same feelings of loss, but I find comfort in these memories.
Isla Waldron, "Chocolate Strawberries," 2025. On Valentine's Day, we make chocolate-covered strawberries. Every year, for as long as I can remember. Everyone gets home, we cover the strawberries in melted chocolate, and put them in the fridge to cool while we make heart-shaped pizzas. My parents always watch Zombieland on Valentine's Day. This year, they decided my sibling and I were old enough to participate in this part of our Valentine's Day tradition. So while we ate our strawberries, we watched the movie.
Isabella Vargas, "Long term hobbies," 2024. I've been playing violins for 6 years and my family has always been supportive about it. I love playing in my school and plan to maybe do it as a job. I recently got this violin that is 200 years old and it's beautiful. I am so glad to have been able to play for so long in order to play something so beautiful.
Idriss Snoussi , "Mammoth," 2024. When I was 7, my parents took me to Mammoth for the first time. We all had such a good time it turned into a tradition. Ten years later, when my brother turned 5, we took him to Mammoth to snowboard for the first time. Seeing him learn how to snowboard reminded me of the first time I went snowboarding. This past time was the first time my brother joined in on this tradition.
Idriss Snoussi , "Gloom," 2024. Walking to school in the morning can be pretty gloomy sometimes.
Harry Weinberger, "Late Night Edits," 2025. My mom, Kristin, is an editor so she needs to work late nights very often in order to make a deadline for something to get published.
Hannah Peloquin, "Weathered," 2024. The original photo I'm holding in this picture is from the day of my First Communion. My brother and I are crouched down and posing behind two plant holders that are in the shape of a little boy and a little girl. I can hear my mom's giggle whenever I look at this picture, we were always making her laugh. The colors in the original photo are bright and fresh, while the colors in the background of the new photo are muted and worn. Life seems so much more colorful through the eyes of a child.
Tylee Scott, "Reflections," 2025. Sometimes my mom has to pick me up early for debate tournaments just to drop me off and this was one of those occasions. In this picture, she had gone to work at 2 am and picked me up at 5 am to get breakfast and drop me off. She couldn't switch vehicles so she picked me up in her city sanding machine which was strangely warm inside. We had to wait an extra 20 minutes for the bus to finally arrive. The plow was spacious but cramped with my luggage, I was nervous as I waited for the bus but my mom was able to talk me through it. During the wait we talked about everything, filling the air with memories.
Milo Duhamel, "My favorite brother, my only brother," 2025. My 12 year old brother Wyatt is super energetic right before dinner. But dinner is especially hard to make if you don't have your sausages.
Rose Jaquith, untiled, 2024. My family is very busy because of the work we do. My father, being a single dad, does everything he can to make my brother and me happy. This photo is of my dad, my brother, and my boots lined up at our back door. After a few hours of cleaning pens and feeding animals, we are all exhausted, and we all just go inside and lie in our beds, not spending any time together. Sometimes, we all feel and look like our boots do in this picture, worn out.
Theo Spanier, "Hugging the Sun," 2025. This was dad in the evening on a walk. I wanted to take a normal photo of him but he decided to do a random pose.
Marlen Lopez, "Potting In Peace," 2024. My dad brought home some needed essentials for our little garden such as soil. He and my mom both have a thing for taking care of nature, a passion that was passed down to me. I love seeing flowers and trees around the house - it brings color to our home. Color makes everything look more lively. My dad didn't look too pleased with my cat Luki in the bucket of soil he left out, but I found it pretty funny.
Lelimaine Tagi, "Little Roofer," 2024. My little brother likes climbing on a collapsed ladder that's perfectly sized for him. Gotta get him ready to carry on his dad's roofing business some way or another.
Katherine Blaha, "Last Night's Math Homework," 2024. Whenever I'm confused in math I ask my dad for help. Rather than getting regular paper he grabs the closest thing on his desk he can write on. Often times it's the envelope of a bill, so it stays on the desk until it's paid.
Kamilah Montes de Oc, "Second Parents," 2024. Growing up I wasn't close with my sister, she and I are ten years apart in age and she moved away for college when I was young. During quarantine she moved back home and we became best friends. When she moved out again I thought that our bond would fizzle out, but instead I found myself hanging out with her and her boyfriend every other weekend. They became my second parents.
Jane McManus, "Morning Coffee," 2024. My dad makes coffee every morning when he wakes up early for his work. Sometimes, the noise from making coffee wakes me up, and I get to say goodbye to him before he leaves. I look forward to this because I often only see him in the evening, and I wish I had more time with him.
Kaia Puthuff, "Three Brothers," 2024. I was taking pictures of my little brother and behind him there were my two other brothers. I'm not quite sure what they were talking about but I think it was video games. My little brother was being left out because he wouldn't understand what they were talking about. Since he was left out he decided to come to me for some company.
Kamilah Montes de Oc, "Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego," 2024. My dad moved to Rosarito after the divorce, an hour from San Diego. He would text me a couple times a year for a holiday or birthday, our communication barely existent. One day my sister told me to pack because we'd be seeing our dad in San Diego. And we did. Gaslamp Quarter began a new chapter in the relationship with my father.
Skyler Cion, "My Brothers," 2025. After work.