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I have been a professional photographer for over 20 years. There is a saying your GIFT selects you. Photography selected me. My early experience of this process was like like a monkey on my back. No matter which way i turned it would not release me. Than one day I realized the peace I experience when ever I am capturing images. Is the grace of the Universe.

She is a family caregiver for a loved one with memory loss, it can be challenging.

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She is her mother’s family caregiver, who is showing signs of dementia.

Family caregivers Alzheimer's portrait project. Shot at Enon Baptist Church Philadelphia Pa. July 2016

She is her mother’s caregiver who has a form of dementia. This is all new to her, so she is learning as she goes.

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She is the primary family caregiver for two people in her family, one of which has dementia.

Portraits of Family Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's/dement

Her name is Diana she is her husband’s family caregiver who has a form of dementia. Although he lives in a very nice professional assisted living facility. She still spends fifty hours of week with him. She believes in honoring their wedding vows, through sickness and health.

Her nmae is Diana Branch Jones. She is a huband's Aubrey Jones family caregiver who has dementia. She spends 50 hours a week with him at an assisted living location in Chestnut Hill Pa. On going project on family caregivers. July 2016

His name is Jimmy he was his grandmother’s family caregiver. She died with dementia.

This is a portrait of Jimmy. He was his grandmother's family caregiver. She died from the affacts of dementia. It was shot at my studio in July 2016. It is an on going project I am working on how caregivers are affected by being caregivers for a family member with dementia.

This is my brother Duane, he lived with our father “Big Ray”, as daddy traveled though dementia. It is not easy to watch your father who all of a sudden needed help due to the affects of dementia. Daddy was given his name because he stood 6’4″ and weighted 225-250lbs. most of his life. Later in live he stood 6 feet and weight 150 lbs. It can wear on you.

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Along with her mother Thersea, this young woman Shannon was a family caregiver for her grandmother who died with Alzheimer’s disease. And experienced love because of them.

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A family caregiver.

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The family caregivers that are part of this project always come with a unique air of love.

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