Photo Finish: "A Faithful Surrender" by Angela Bacon-Kidwell

Photo © Angela Bacon-Kidwell

Originally a painter, Angela Bacon-Kidwell now uses photography as her medium to express her feelings and experiences. Over the last few years, she has made a series of images, “Home By Nightfall,” in reaction to her father’s illness and eventual passing.

“During the three years of relentless discord, I created 70 images of these ambiguous queries,” Bacon-Kidwell explains, “emoting, sensing and seeking to create an external landscape that would calm the chaos of despair in our internal psyches.”

The image featured here, “A Faithful Surrender,” is the final photograph in the series. “I attempt visually to articulate the complete acceptance of his death with arms wide open, ready to surrender his fate…the boy, my son, represents a life once had.”

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