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Zach Roberts
Luminous Endowment Michael Reichmann Grant Recipient
An American Family 

 

I was born and raised in Strasburg, PA and lived in New York City for many years, working as a bartender. That's where I met my girlfriend, who I moved to Sweden and started a family with. I have now lived in Stockholm since 2013.

 

I applied for the grant because I had just spent some time with my parents in PA while my mom was really sick. I came home to Stockholm with a bunch of images that I felt had a very personal meaning to me. I had no previous experience in photography, only an urge tell my family story. The story I wanted to tell coincided with the 10-year anniversary of my brother's mass shooting and suicide. I thought it was a good opportunity for me to show that however cataclysmic the events of October 2006 were, my family wasn't broken apart.

 

I was first inspired to take pictures after I had purchased a good camera in the summer of 2015. My mom received news fr...

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