With Dad

Most of my life I have been documenting family through photographs. It is ritual accepted without prejudice and my way to empathetically connect. In the case of my father succumbing to Alzheimer’s over a spread of twenty years, my determination to persistently photograph the man I love, reluctantly evolved into my eventual acceptance of an incomprehensible disease.

 

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With Dad – Book, Fall 2019

Davis Publications, Inc., WITH DAD, by Stephen DiRado, November 2019, A photographic journal that vividly articulates a son’s connections, captured through his camera, as his father succumbs to Alzheimer’s. Experience the love, dignity and profound intimacy shared between Stephen DiRado and his family over a chronological span of twenty years.

Retrospect: UNH, Art Museum Fall 2017

University of New Hampshire, Museum of Art, Durham, NH: Stephen DiRado’s Embrace, A retrospect 1983 through 2017. October 26, 2017 through December 15, 2017.