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There is a family on A Street, where 13 people used to live.  Over the years the house has been a home to not only my sibling and I but also to my nephews and nieces and countless pets.  Growing up, my siblings and I would play and make believe by building small unstable shacks or melting crayons and throwing them on the outside of the wall of the house my family and I grew up in.  My inspiration to photograph my family came from these moments of play since toys were few and sharing was not our thing.  I have been photographing my family for about ten years.  During this time, I had been photographing my family with a simple point and shoot camera not really knowing or caring how I was taking the photographs.  I was a graphic design major, later becoming an art major but still never really taking any of it seriously.  Then I stopped completely but still continued to photograph my family. The beginning photographs were meant for my enjoyment and to laugh at when I had to chance to look over there.  It is this theme of family that I have worked on since I was an undergraduate at California State University Fresno.  My work investigates the lives of a family of 13, how they live, what goes on: documenting the mundane everyday life of my family.  Using the snapshot aesthetic, technology such as my laptop, camera phone and skype and documentary process, I will continue to photograph and expand on this vast body of work

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