Shakti and DevKirn celebrated many years of love and life together by marrying in Montrose Park last week. In one of the more intimate and beautiful ceremonies I’ve seen, they included a great deal of chanting and singing, and recounting some of their love story. These two used to play music in Montrose Park when they were younger, and so though they have moved away, it was a very fitting place to get married.
Yesterday was a really big day for civil rights (though we must admit that Wednesday was a pretty shit day). I’m sure you’ve heard about DOMA and Prop 8 already, and honestly a lot of the legal stuff is really confusing to me. There’s still plenty to be sorted out and still a long road ahead for full marriage equality. I hadn’t planned to go down to the Supreme Court again, but when my building lost power and I couldn’t be home working, it seemed like the place to go.
Beth, Chris and N were kind enough to invite me up to Philadelphia to photograph them in the neighborhood where Beth grew up. It’s a really cool area, where we couldn’t go more than half a block without running into someone Beth knows. I met this rad family at another client’s wedding and it was great to see them again. And always exciting when folks are looking for that documentary angle to their family pictures (because I really don’t do any other kind of family sessions).