September 2nd, 2008
Me and My Father
In my last post I mentioned we were headed to Portland and I would be posting again in a few days. That plan got sidetracked a little. The day we returned home I received word that my father, Stephen Burd, had died. I wrote more about that on my other blog.
I took this photograph around 1992-93. It's a self-protrait. I'm on the right, and I'm also the baby. The man holding me is my dad (when he was 19).
I created this image in a pre-digital world... no digital photography, and no Photoshop. The compositing was accomplished in-camera by projecting a 16mm home movie onto myself.
The image held a lot of meaning for me at the time, and now it means even more.
Tags: Black & White, Film, Paul Burd, Self Portrait, Stephen Burd