Over the course of 2 months, I photographed over 35 older adults added a unique flavor to each portrait.
I went to five different Seniors Centers around the city of Los Angeles collecting their stories and together took their portraits creating a fun experience for them.
The project called "And I'm Only 94" came from the idea
of photographing elderly in a fun, creative and vital way,
and show how age can be a wonderful thing when
you embrace it and feel good about yourself.
ANNE - 94
"Everywhere I go, they can't keep up with me. I always have so much energy. I'm just a happy girl, even thou I'm in pain 24 hours a day. That's what I know."
BRENT WILLIAMS - 70
"I'm still a young blood in a older container."
CAMILA SERRANO - 71
"We need to go into that phase. You get to the point of reality where you could reconize you can't really do things today that you did before as well. It's kind of keeping a conexion with reality of your abilities."
ZIA GARCIA - 66
"When I turned 50, I decided that I wasn't going to care what people thought. This has been just an amazing experience, where I literally blossom, it was like water being poured on a wilting rose."
ELIZABETH INCE - 78
"When I was 5 years old, my mom took me to the ballet, and I said: 'Oh, mommy, I want to be like the pretty ladies'. That's how started the whole thing."
FRAN FINEMAN - 82
"I've been told everything in life isn't comic and funny, but I don't agree with that. I mean, I don't laugh in funerals but I think there is a humorous touch to almost everything we do. That's the side I look at it."
JOSEPH A. LEVY - 86
"I can't dance anymore, but I still love it. When I was 7 years old, my father took me to Radio City Musical and that changed my life. I never got over. I wanted to be a dancer."
JERRY MCCALL - THE GIPSY FEET - 65
"So many of my family are still in Oklahoma living 5, 6 miles from where we grew up. And they say: 'I don't really care if I don't see the rest of the world. It's not a big deal. And I just want to go like: NO, you're dying. That's slow suicide. There is so much more to the world, and more you want to admit."
LARRY - 72
"I'm the Stamp Man. Rubber Stamp Art keeps my sanity."
RITA KIMBERLY - 84
"I'm a bowler - for 56 years, non stop. I feel pretty good. I can laugh, joke and be good to people. And people that aren't nice, I just ignore them."
MARSHA MILLER - 78
"I wanted to be a married woman, and I was; checked. I wanted to be a teacher, became a teacher; so checked. I want to become a writer, checked as well. And finally, what I really wanted to be was a Cabaret Artist and I did that. Checked. But now, the question is checked, checked, checked, what's the next goal and I will have time to check?"
NORMA NEWMAN - 75
"There is a lot of issues of getting old. We are getting close to die, we are getting close to think about what we want to keep, and whatever we don't."
