GENERATIONS

WHAT IS A GENERATIONS SHOOT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
Your generations photo shoot can include various combinations of family members – from the newest arrival to your much-loved Grandparents and everyone in-between. My good friend, Jenyl is lucky to have her ninety year old grandmother alive today. When I suggested a generations photo-shoot, she was all game. I really enjoyed seeing these three ladies interact and engage each other during our session. It warmed my heart immensely. This is what Jenyl had to say about it…

“Even at the ‘tender’ age of ninety, my grandmother still has her coffee with milk and two sugars. She loves it that way! Surprisingly, my mom also loves coffee that way and well…I do too! Something has been passed on through the generations we identify with.

Our generations photo shoot was pretty much the same, well minus the coffee, milk and sugar – lol! They were pictures that stood still in time, that captured the essence of our history and identity as a family – an everlasting record of Grandma, Mom and Daughter.

Firstly, the excitement this created at my Grandmother’s home was laughable. My Grandmother has Alzheimer’s disease and at times she had no idea what we were doing or who some of us were or if she had make up on and the list went on but amazingly, as soon as she was placed in front the camera her wit and light-hearted personality shone through in a way that I’ve not seen in recent times. She was the life of the party – at ninety! Lol! And this was definitely a treat for my mom. I watched my mom transform as she related to ‘family together again’.

Patrice, thank you for the beautiful opportunity you allowed for three generations to come together to seal this memory (coffee, milk and sugar) and… I’d do it again.

– Jen”