Photographer Kristen Schmid has a beautiful photo series documenting the tender everyday moments between her husband Ted and their oldest son Sam.
‘Father to Son’ shows how Sam has grown from a 3-week-old infant to a young child of seven, and captures the vital role that his father played in his development.
Schmid said, “I am interested in what it feels to be the parent, and in what it feels to be the child. I am trying to distill what I know is important about how they interact with each other, and how that changes over time... What I want to bring to the conversation is an examination of how the father-son relationship takes shape. Everyday parent-child interactions are more meaningful and influential than even the participants realize.”
Through her photos we see Ted and Sam sleeping in the same room, gathering leaves, reading together, rock climbing, and sitting around the dinner table. Beautiful in their honesty and rawness, they show that parenting is as much about guidance and nurturing as it is about both parties learning from each other.
View more of Schmid’s photos below.
[via My Modern Met and Lenscratch, images via Kristen Schmid]