A friend is working on a photo essay book and asked for help. I saw what was involved and decided to create a book too. But on what subject? I thought the tattoo culture is interesting. But I decided the subject should be more personal to me.

When I was seven my father put me into an orphanage for the summer, six months after my mother died of breast cancer. I decided on Jewish Orphans in America. My first idea was to have a portrait of the orphan in present day on the right hand page, and on the opposing page the subject’s experience in his or hers own words. Something like this. Currently (1/30/2022) I am researching orphanages and pondering how to find people that were in orphanages.