I’ve been doing many graduation photographs lately. Graduates come in all ages. I received a call from a mother who wanted pictures of her son, who was graduating from kindergarten during the pandemic. The school didn’t bring in a photographer this year because everything was shut down. So after the shutdown was over, she called me, and I photographed her son in the studio. He was a great kid, full of energy, and was very happy to be here. I created a few photographs of him wearing the mask that all of us need to use right now.
My second graduate was from the University of Dayton. He is from the Middle East and graduated with an engineering degree. In his home country, everyone has their photograph taken in their robes, and this year because of the pandemic, they had no public graduation. He wanted a good picture to send back to his mother.
My third graduate is a woman who has spent the last number of years working on her Ph.D. in Ministry. She works as a hospital Chaplin. Now everyone at the hospital has to call her Doctor also. She is an interesting person because her undergraduate degree was in music. I first met her when she needed an updated professional photograph for her opera singing career.
I am also photographing many soon to be high school senior graduates. But they aren’t graduates yet.
