Sixteen Photographs. Sixteen Stories.

Apr 25, 2018

It all started with a photograph.

Actually, sixteen. A little girl in a Paris portrait studio in 1944. Two old women at a birthday party. Hanoi in 1954. A man at sea. A boy, his dog, and their regiment. A woman in an evening gown on a cruise during the Great Depression…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 25, 2018

Pragya Krishna

My parents’ marriage is so weird that I still kind of look at it and go, “huh?” They say it’s a product of time and circumstance…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 25, 2018

Kelsie Blazier

I’ve come to look at perfection as an infection, a hereditary condition that’s found its way from my mother’s genes to mine. I am…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 25, 2018

Momo Hu

Every time Dad came home, the place was different. The studio where we lived on the second floor of an old building felt even tinier because a…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 23, 2018

Jack Knych

When Tino DeAngelis died, my grandmother called my mother and mentioned his death, and that there wasn’t a funeral or a wake for him. My…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 23, 2018

Chloe Picchio

My grandfather wanted to be a soldier but he was too young so his brother Peter helped him. Peter took his birth certificate and…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 23, 2018

Deanna Hirsch

If her mother hadn’t died when she was six, the family would have stayed in Paris. She would have been raised a proper French girl and…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 23, 2018

Bianca Heyward

Memory is an act of perception, but when summoned, my memory provides bullshit. I was eight when this photograph was taken, and all…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 23, 2018

Will McCollister

“Faye,” my Aunt Kathy called out to my mother as we sifted through the boxes of photos in my recently deceased grandmother’s…

Zein Jardaneh in Not Who I Pictured

Apr 23, 2018

Heather Schroering

His name is Rip. I know that because, well, it’s none of my business. Why someone took a picture of this boy in a button-down…

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