I first met Joshua Longbrake at the opening of a group show we both participated in called, “New Sacred.” I knew we had something in common when I saw his contribution, a photograph of a single Joshua Tree in the California desert.\*

After years of friendship and conversation, I urged Joshua to show some of his photographs. People needed to see them and people needed to hear his stories. Joshua had been taking photographs of his aging grandfather, a WW II veteran, in Indiana. We worked though a batch of over a hundred photographs, constructing visuals narratives then taking them apart, keeping some images and removing many. 

“The photographs portray the beauty, strength, sorrow, weakness and joy of a man who has lived well and is living well, whose body is slowly breaking down and is yet strong and sharp. Through these images we gain a sense of what it means to survive 93 years, but also to live them well.”