Hannah Bemelmans

These picture were taken in Vermont where my dad moved to after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, about 15 years ago.  I go up to visit and photograph every few months.  I tend to photograph my Dad outside because the landscape is very important to him--it’s why he moved there--and to me, because I have a very emotional response to nature and photographing what I respond to helps me to communicate what I’m feeling. My Dad and I work very collaboratively when I take the pictures of him.  In some pictures he will direct me so that he will be photographed how and where he wants to be shown.  In others we decide together or I will just already know.

Fog, 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

 By the Pond, 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

 Brambles in Ice, 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

 In the Field, 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans

 In the Grass, 2011 © Hannah Bemelmans