If I don’t get it on camera 

I feel like it never happened.

COLORS ARE MOODS BY CARLYN PORTER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 07

If I don’t get it on camera I feel like it never happened, Carlyn Porter says. “To some it might seem that my obsession with getting it captured on camera takes away from living the experience, but to me everything looks better through the viewfinder.”

You don’t want this kid turning 14 like this.

SLINGSHOTS BY SALEM ADMASSU 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 07

She had actually managed to not think that far in her son’s life! Did parents always think 10 years ahead? Well actually, yes there was a time. At the very beginning. She was an excited, in fact super-enthused young mother, thrilled to have him, thrilled to be the one to put him through the world.