In the aftermath of September 11th, photographer Nick Haymes turned his lens inward, spending twenty-five years documenting the lives of his two sons in a small Manhattan apartment where nothing could be hidden and nothing was left unrecorded. His book Chronograph is not merely a family album but a meditation on time itself — on how ordinary moments accumulate into a life, and how the same years that carry children into adulthood carry elders toward their end. Born from catastrophe and shaped by intimacy, the project asks what it means to witness the people we love most, and whether the camera
Photographer Nick Haymes documents his sons' lives from infancy to adulthood in intimate family chronicle
Haymes documented the deterioration and deaths of his in-laws Nadia and Mikhail, who underwent dialysis for two years before passing away separately, one year apart.