Spending time with my grandmother | Norfolk, Virginia

My grandmother Olga is 93 years old, soon to be 94.  She is an amazing woman and one of the most important people in my life.  Even though I talk to her on the phone about 3 times a week, I only get to see her 2-3 times a year.  Every time I take the drive from Pittsburgh to Norfolk, I promise myself that I will take a ton of photos of her; when I get to Norfolk I get caught up in shuttling my kids between my mom and my dad, doing family things and essentially not taking any photos of my grandmother.  This time I actually managed to stick with my intentions and over the last week I shot over a thousand digital frames of my grandmother and 4 rolls of film.  About half of the photos below were shot with a Canon 5D Mark III and processed with VSCO presets.  The rest were shot on Kodak 400 CN pushed to 800.

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Dmitriy Babichenko Photography | Help Portrait Pittsburgh
We ran the Help-Portrait Pittsburgh event for the 4th year in a row on December 7, 2013.  As always, it has been an amazing experience!  In this day and age it is hard to believe that there are people who have never been photographed!  Huge thanks to Kevin Lorenzi for doing 99% of the organizational work, Allegro Hearth Bakery and Whole Foods of Pittsburgh for donating food to make the event more pleasant for everyone.  As a side note, these are cell phone snapshots of the original printed images:)

Dmitriy Babichenko Photography | Help Portrait Pittsburgh