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At first, Stephen DiRado thought his dad was dealing with depression. Gene DiRado, then in his late 50s, had become more withdrawn, more forgetful. So Stephen processed his growing concern by doing what he’d done since the age of 12: taking photographs. It was the 1980s, and Stephen schlepped his 8x10 camera and tripod over to his parents’ home in Marlborough, Mass., to check in on Gene and make portraits of him.

“I was running toward him with the sense of fear that something was wrong,” Stephen says now about those years.

The camera, he thought, would help bring him closer to his dad, who was a painter. With each print, the two men would discuss the composition, the design. Increasingly, Gene was forgetting things. Still, it was years before Stephen realized his father was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Stephen’s black-and-white portraits of Gene, spanning decades, turned into a documentary project called With Dad. The project is the winner of the 2018 Bob and Diane Fund, awarded this week, which aims to support photographic work about Alzheimer’s disease and dementia through a $5,000 grant.

“I would see it in his face — and that’s when I would get that sinking feeling,” Stephen says of those early years, when he was struggling to come to terms with his dad’s declining health. “I started to look for me in those photos. What’s my role?”

The two continued the project until Gene’s death in 2009. Since then, Stephen has been photographing his mother Rose as she navigates life without her husband. With the grant money from the Bob and Diane Fund, Stephen plans to make a book of the photographs.

A Photographer Turns A Lens On His Father’s Alzheimer’s

Photo credits: Stephen DiRado

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A cold, dusky Saturn looms in the distance in this striking, natural color view of the ringed planet and five of its icy satellites. This image was composed from exposures taken by Cassini’s narrow angle camera on Nov. 9, 2003, from a distance of 111.4 million kilometers (69.2 million miles). wow~

Image credit: NASA/JPL

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