—
by
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/21/my-dakota/#1
Looking again at the work now that My Dakota is finally a book, I realize that I was photographing this particularly dark time in my life in order to try to absorb it, to distill it, and, ultimately, to let it go. Not only did my first grief change me, but making My Dakota changed me as well, both as a human being and as a bookmaker.