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1980s Civil War, LIL Photography (what I’m calling my mother’s photography through initials lol)
12/12/25

Mother’s work

We’ve been digitally archiving old family photographs. In doing so, I’ve come to realize my mother is the original photographer of the family. I always kinda knew that already, since I experienced it live, but this is one of the first times I got to see images that were not necessarily of the family. Think b-shots, the every day, travel, etc., that’s further established the point that she was a photographer in general, alongside being a preschool teacher as her vocation.

More to come as I make my way through and set aside these.

Image captions on the left side:
  1. A golf cart parked on a beach in Miami
  2. Old records in an old library
  3. San Francisco, years before I lived there
  4. Runners huddle together, Southern California
  5. Kids of So Cal, ~1996
  6. Unknown
  7. Sea World, 1997