On the morning of January 1, 2009 Michael and I pulled into our grandparents’ driveway with an enormous trailer full of camera gear. We unloaded and spent two hours setting up this shot and conducted a series of interviews that wrapped at 6pm. Our grandfather sat in this chair - his chair - and answered every question we could think of about his life growing up during the Great Depression, working jobs through school, being stationed in Papua New Guinea in WWII, starting a business, raising a family of five kids, and witnessing change in the course of his 93 years. As i wrote on twitter and posted on my blog, it was the best January 1 ever.

For both of us, what began as an interview quickly turned into a much larger project.  -Hudson