I had never met Sam before her session, she applied for the project in late 2025 and this Spring we started to connect and get ready to schedule her portraits. She told me she had found the project after her brother Alex died, when she lived in New York. Parts of her story, even from…
Tag: fiction
Kristine
When I was 7 years old, I met a girl that lived around the corner, her name was Kristine. She quickly became a playmate, both latchkey kids who liked to climb trees and swing as high as we could – I don’t have a lot of childhood memories, but I remember moments with Kristine, and…
Lena
Lena and I met via the Faces IG page first, she followed me and I would see her posts about dance, mental health and her life – not knowing then, her connection to suicide. The fact is, most people on social media follow me because within the stories told via this project, they find something…
The Faces of Fortitude 