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My own family: my grandmother’s eightieth, a family gathering in Portugal, a trip with my mother and sister, and the Grand Canyon in December.

49 photographs · 4 series

My grandmother’s 80th birthday

2021

A garden party for her eightieth: a wall of family photographs, a game of tambola, saris, and a great deal of laughter.

  • A giant number 80 made of family photographs on a garden wall, above a lightbox reading Honoring 80 Years
  • A lightbox reading Honoring 80 Years beside a wooden tambola board, pens and a bowl of dried fruit
  • A tray of vegetable crudités and small savouries held out at a garden party
  • Rish’s grandmother in a green sari raising a glass at a garden table, smiling
  • Two older women laughing together at a garden table
  • Rish’s grandmother in a green sari raising her arms in celebration beside sunflowers
  • A row of women in saris and salwar suits gathered in front of the photo wall
  • Rish’s grandmother raising a hand beside her birthday cake, under the 80 photo wall
  • Rish’s grandmother laughing with arms open beside her cake and the Honoring 80 Years sign
  • Rish’s grandmother smiling behind light-up 80 marquee numbers
  • A young woman kissing Rish’s grandmother on the cheek behind light-up 80 marquee numbers
  • Two older women cheek to cheek at the garden party, one wrapped in a striped shawl

Family in Portugal

2023

A family gathering in Portugal: the whole family on the lawn, long lunches, a birthday cake and a hilltop walk.

  • Rish Saini with his extended family, posing together on a garden lawn in Portugal
  • An older woman laughing and raising a glass of rosé against a wall of vines and flowers
  • Rish Saini with family members on a garden lawn, an older relative in a floral shirt at the centre
  • An older woman smiling over a birthday cake covered in sprinkles, under a Happy Birthday sign
  • An older woman blowing out the candles on a sprinkle-covered birthday cake
  • Family members gathered on a garden lawn around an older relative in a floral shirt
  • Five family members standing together on a garden lawn
  • A young woman hugging an older woman in a pink floral shirt among garden flowers
  • A woman kissing an older woman’s cheek under woven wicker lamps
  • Family members on a garden lawn, an older relative at the centre
  • Two women in sunglasses, one in a straw hat, smiling in a sunny square
  • Two men laughing against a granite wall, one flexing his arm
  • Rish Saini with a large family group in front of a swimming pool, wooded hills behind
  • Rish Saini with family members on a granite hilltop above a town and a green valley
  • Rish Saini with a large family group on stone steps beneath a wrought-iron bandstand
  • A man with his arms folded, smiling in a sunlit garden
  • A small orange mushroom growing from moss on a stone wall

Portugal with my mother and sister

2023

Volcanic rock pools, a misty forest of twisted trees, and the three of us.

  • Rish Saini with his mother and sister among tropical plants
  • Rish’s mother and sister smiling together among tropical plants
  • Rish’s mother kissing his sister on the cheek
  • Rish Saini with his arm around his mother in a garden
  • Rish’s sister riding piggyback on his back, a purple flower in her hair
  • Rish’s sister hugging him from behind, cheek to cheek, laughing
  • Rish Saini with his arms spread wide beside his sister among twisted, moss-covered trees in the mist
  • Rish’s mother and sister arm in arm in a misty forest of twisted trees
  • Rish’s mother looking up into a canopy of twisted trees
  • Rish’s sister smiling in a misty forest of twisted trees
  • Rish’s mother and sister embracing in a volcanic rock pool
  • A volcanic islet of layered brown rock rising from the sea beyond black lava rocks

The Grand Canyon with family

2021

A December trip to the canyon: snow in the pines, sunset on the rim and everyone in their warmest coats.

  • The Grand Canyon from the South Rim: layered red and purple cliffs under a streaked sky
  • A couple in winter coats smiling at a railing above the Grand Canyon
  • A man in a pink beanie and blue jacket taking a selfie at the canyon rim
  • A woman in a grey sweater smiling among snowy pines
  • A young man spreading his arms wide above the canyon in late sun
  • A man sitting on the rim with his back to the camera, clouds rolling over the canyon
  • Two people on top of an orange sandstone rock against a deep blue sky, one waving
  • Family members wrapped up against the cold, smiling at the canyon rim at sunset

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