Mea’s pictures are how I see ourselves when no one can see us—the moments I collect in my heart. Of course, you could say this is documentary family photography, but Mea is more than that. She has an eye for family life; she knows what is extraordinary in the ordinary, what is the wonder of being together.
When I showed the pictures to others, many said how good they were, that they were not boring and fun to look at. Well, that’s how exciting, real and human all the pictures of Mea we got. At the photo shoot, it was as if she wasn’t there; she didn’t shape the family dynamics or the events, yet she was everywhere she needed to be, and in a few hours, she saw in us who we really were.
