ON SEEING, A Journal. #505
Growing UP: Twins
She: Ariyan Pratt
He: Zaire Pratt
December 6, 2022
Pratt twins, 5 and 23 yrs.
I have studied over 200 children from childhood into their 20’s. I began some when they were newborns; others, as is the case with Ariyan and Zaire, started about the time they could read and write. For all of them I made annual studio portraits and asked them to write answers to a series of questions, a kind of diary about their lives, their feelings, their hopes, their regrets.
These special young people, Ariyan and Zaire, proved to be as remarkable and authentic as the many young people I have had the privilege to get to know.
4 yrs; Ariyan, left; Zaire right
5 yrs; Ariyan, left; Zaire right
6 yrs; Zaire, left; Ariyan, right
7 yrs; Zaire, left; Ariyan, right
8 yrs; Ariyan, left; Zaire right
9 yrs; Ariyan, left; Zaire right
10 yrs; Zaire, left; Ariyan, right
11 yrs; Zaire, left; Ariyan, right
13 yrs; Ariyan, left; Zaire right
14 yrs; Zaire, left; Ariyan, right
15 yrs; Zaire, left; Ariyan, right
18 yrs; Ariyan, left; Zaire right
20 yrs; Ariyan, left; Zaire right
23 yrs; Ariyan, left; Zaire right
Thank you, Ariyan, and thank-you, Zaire.
Please do return in a few years.
The “GROWING UP “Project:
I am interested in everything about human development, fascinated by maturation, growth, emotional, educational and physical development. This exploration has been a major 30 year odyssey, an adventure that has yielded riches beyond my initial imagining.
Permission was signed by the parents of each and every child every year, and by the participants themselves once they turned 18. In addition, we have now sent copies of all of their writings and edited photographs to the participants for whom I have finished all my editing and have received full permission from that group to publish and post.
