'I didn’t miss a thing': How Nick Haymes photographed his sons’ entire lives from verrucas to homemade hamster coffin
Bloody noses, ear cleanings, the first sproutings of armpit hair … the photographer reveals how he captured his two babies growing into boys and then men
TL;DR
- Photographer Nick Haymes's book 'Chronograph' documents the lives of his two sons from birth to adulthood.
- The project was inspired by the realization of life's brevity after 9/11.
- Haymes captured both mundane and significant life events, including physical changes, emotional ups and downs, and family milestones.
- The book also portrays the later years and deaths of his wife's parents, Nadia and Mikhail.
- Haymes aimed for impartiality, focusing on personal memory and self-analysis rather than sentimentality.
- The book starts and ends with themes of death, completing a full circle for the photographer.