A Trip through the Family Archive
“You go through life wondering what is it all about; but at the end of the day, it’s all about family.”
— Rod Stewart
The reason I chose to do an anthology of photos for my wildcard is relatively simple: my family had all of these pictures collecting dust in storage, so I thought that putting together a curated collection of them would be a visually pleasing way to introduce you, the reader, to my family. However, once I actually started going through them, I realized that I didn’t actually know who practically any of these people were! I knew which one my grandmother was and I could interpolate which ones her parents were. I got the pleasure to meet Jaap and Matti once when I vacationed in the Netherlands in 2009, so I could kind of tell which ones they were. However, I had no actual idea how they were related. Putting together this collection has filled in all the gaps on my family tree for me, and it has caused my grandmother’s interview to make so much more sense. The pictures have allowed me to put faces to names and to empathize so much more with their stories.
Below: another couple of photos not included in the slide show, along with pictures of my mother and father for comparing the previous generations to mine.
