2022 365

Personal project, year two /  by Karla Reimer

Two years ago, I committed to taking (but mostly sharing) a photo every day for a year. Little did I know that I would be documenting our family during a pandemic for most of 2020. I decided to continue the project for another year but 2021 started off with loss and profound grief, which left me with just enough energy to maintain the minimum and next to nothing for flexing creative muscles.

I decided to give the daily project a chance again.

In the first twenty days of this endeavour, there have been days where I haven’t had the energy to photograph anything and days when the inspiration is overwhelming. Choosing just one photo is difficult—perhaps that is an unintentional challenge for me in 2022–since the style of photography I naturally gravitate to is documentary. I see this reflecting in my writing too. I want to be a storyteller in every sense.

Posting only one photo on social media doesn’t tell the whole story, as we all well know, and this space has been significantly under-utilized, in general and for my photography. So here is my intention: I will continue to post my one photo on social, but I’ll make a concentrated effort to share the rest of the story here.

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Below are a few photos from our first day of 2022 - our youngest was upset about something not going his way but when Dad brought out a video of Max Verstappen in a F1 race, his problems disappeared.