Bonus Brothers

Hunter, 2024.

Bonus Brothers, 2024.

Austin, 2024.

Our only family portrait was taken in 2012. Three teenage boys uninterested in anything resembling a pose wreaked havoc on the poor photographer who considered lunch time fit for a portrait session. The single canvas print of us forcing smiles and squinting in the midday Texas sun sits dwarfed by the home theatre system in our parent’s living room. 

I wasn’t a photographer then. None of us had yet become any of the things we are now. But we were officially brothers.

My dad and Dana were married while I was in Germany on tour with the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra. Hunter charmingly read a crummy speech I wrote and surely got some laughs. I’ve never thought to ask how Austin felt that day. 

I am a photographer now and the two of them are much more tolerant of being in front of the camera. For that, I am lucky and we made these images together in my garage. We are also still brothers.