“I hope my family sees how much they’ve meant to me,” says photographer Tealia Ellis Ritter
was surrounded by art: her mother was a painter and sculptor, her father an avid amateur photographer who loved snapping pictures of the family. Every now and then, he would organise a slideshow to share the new work.
As a teen, Ellis Ritter began to dream of being an artist. “That would be the most amazing career you could have, but I didn’t think it was actually possible to do that so I went to school for psychology,” she says. But things did not go as planned, and in 1999 she enrolled in Columbia College in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a photographer.
“One of the most profound things to come out of making these photographs is that you have to trust and respect each other,” Ellis Ritter says. “I have an intimate knowledge of my family, and they of me. They’ve been doing this for so long that they known what I’m about and I know how far they’re willing to go and when they’d want to stop. I feel so privileged that they would trust me and I think they feel seen. I see us as co-conspirators and I like that.
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