For Love by Alice Yoo & Eugene Kim

For Love by Alice Yoo & Eugene Kim

Author:Alice Yoo & Eugene Kim [Yoo Alice and Kim Eugene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2016-06-10T16:00:00+00:00


Re-created Wedding photos

Melanie Pace

Father and daughter Ben and Olivia Nunery lost Olivia’s mother, Ali, to a rare form of lung cancer when Olivia was just a year old. After two years of being on a “roller coaster of emotions,” Ben decided to move out of the Cincinnati home that they had lived in with Ali. Before they left, Ben asked his sister-in-law, professional photographer Melanie Pace, to take photos of him and his then three-year-old daughter in the home to serve as lasting memories of their lives there.

Ben and Ali had closed on their house the day before their wedding, and they had taken their wedding photos in their new, empty house. Four years later, Ben said one last good-bye to the house, which was once again empty, with Olivia, as they re-created versions of the original wedding photos.

Though Ben says that he did the shoot just for himself and his daughter, the heartbreaking side-by-side photos were shared all over the Internet by viewers who appreciated the vulnerability in each shot. “Many people have asked me how I felt while doing that photo session,” Ben says. “What I want them to know is that this isn’t a story about grief and loss and hurt. Yes, I’ve gone through those emotions and still do, but that’s not what I want people to see in these photos. This is a story about love.”

“I hope others are able to move forward gracefully when given terminal news or have already lost someone,” Melanie says. “It’s incredibly hard to see anything but one day at a time when you are in the thick of it, but seeing that people can still be happy after devastation gives others hope. I hope others also know the deceased are still fully alive so long as you talk of them often and love them like they never left.”



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