Oprah is touched by The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings · Aug 14, 02:12 PM
A wonderful review of The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings appears in the September issue of O, The Oprah Magazine:
“You’ll find nothing less, and profoundly more in The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings (Princeton Architectural Press), photographer KayLynn Deveney’s quietly moving late-life portrait. Hastings’s handwritten captions create a revealing double perspective.”
Here is a short summary of the book:
When Albert Hastings was eighty-five years old, photographer KayLynn Deveney moved near his small flat in Wales. KayLynn took notice of the small rituals and routines—gardening, laundry, grocery shopping—that made up Bert’s life. A friendship slowly developed as KayLynn began photographing parts of Bert’s day. The two developed a simple yet effective method of storytelling—with KayLynn’s images and Albert’s handwritten text—and the project evolved into The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, a poignant and profound chronicle of aging, living alone, and the small things that make up our daily lives. Albert Hastings passed away in February, 2007. He was 91 years old.
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