"Wading": Jon Testa's Photographic Meditation on Family and Grief
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A photographic series by Burlington-based photographer and designer Jon Testa, "Wading" documents the bookends of his parents' lives following the sudden passing of his mother in 2017 and his father in 2025. The project serves as a personal exercise in accepting loss, blending documentary and narrative photography styles that focus on suburban landscapes, environmental portraiture, and the relationship people have with lived-in spaces.
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The project is a personal exercise in accepting loss.
Favouring both the documentary and narrative aspects of photography, his work ranges from suburban landscapes to environmental portraiture, often focusing on neglected structures and well-lived in spaces, and the relationship people have to them.
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