It’s hard to capture a photograph in words, or a life, for that matter. If I were to describe a picture to you, and said “The bowl of apples perched precariously on the frame, halving their sweetness with some unknown world, while the fork sits prominently off-center on the composition, quietly, politely suggesting you make your move before their sweetness tips off into the right…”, you’d picture the photograph, but you wouldn’t feel it, see it, touch it. (You also may think I’m a huge dork for describing apple perching and forks being polite… but bear with me here, people!) The light and the way the subjects sit, the gorgeous, colorful simplicity of it all isn’t described. To see is to feel a photograph, and to photograph is, simply,  to feel a moment.

Two women, Stephanie Barnes and Maria Vettese, collaborated, while living 3191 miles apart, on snapping a shot of every one of their mornings…and now every one of their evenings. Each woman snapped her daily beginning and ending, and they put their shots together, side by side, from 3191 miles apart. 

 These photos speak so ordinarily in their subjects, but so profoundly for what they are. They say “this is how my day started”, “this is how my day ended”, “3191 miles doesn’t matter”, and “it was simple, but so incredibly beautiful”. The dirty dishes you’re not going to clean before going to bed. The bowl of apples in the morning, daring you to carry their sweetness off the frame and through your day.

(Maria on the left, Stephanie on the right). And isn’t it so beautiful that we all start our days so similarly, with the same sweet expectations, the same place settings, and the same hilariously predictable chaos at the end of it? I’m absolutely impressed at the way these truths are made accessible to the world, through the simple priviledge of being able to see and feel these moments along with these women.

 

 ”A Year of Mornings” is being published as a book now, so you can’t see most of the images once available online. But ’A Year of Evenings’ is an ongoing photoblog that is just deliciously addictive.  

Visit them here:

A Year of Mornings:

http://3191ayearofmornings.com/

A Year of Evenings:

http://3191.visualblogging.com/index.html

Oh, I am in love with these. In love. Imagine looking back on your simple, sweet life, and realizing that your friend, right beside you, though 3191 miles away, has a used grapefruit in her sink, and your stove is dirty. And it’s beautiful.

Mariah

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