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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 from 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 as big as her heart is content, the giggle from my sister relaxes her soul and lets her know that all the work is worth it.
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.
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 the most 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 our separate ways. We would usually do a birthday dinner or a special day with my brother and him, but my brother couldn't make it. He lives eight 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 barely 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.
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 [up] in the square state of Wyoming. My sister is over in Texas and is teaching middle schoolers. What they're talking about in the photo is [how] her boyfriend (at the time) is having trouble deciding between a job away from her and just trying to find something in Texas. All families, including the boyfriend's family, say they should go to Texas. He is now engaged to my sister.
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, [and] 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.
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.
Tylee Scott, "Reflections," 2025. Sometimes my mom has to pick me up early for debate tournaments to drop me off, and this was one of those occasions. In this picture, she had gone to work at 2 am, and [then] picked me up at 5 am to get breakfast and drop me off. She couldn't switch off vehicles, so she picked me up in her city sanding machine, which was strangely warm inside. We had to wait an extra 20 minutes later 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 twelve-year-old brother Wyatt is super energetic right before dinner. But dinner is especially hard to make if you don't have your sausages.
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.
Skyler Cion, "My Brothers," 2025. After work.
Ben Beastrom, "Dust," 2025. 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.