A series about family and the acceptance of loss by photographer and designer Jon Testa. Testa is based in Burlington, Vermont. Favouring both the documentary and narrative aspects of photography, his work ranges from suburban landscapes to environmental portraiture, often focusing on neglected structures and well-lived in spaces, and the relationship people have to them. “Wading” captures the bookends of Testa’s parents’ lives following the sudden passing of his mother in the fall of 2017 and his father in the summer of 2025. The project is a personal exercise in accepting loss and processing one’s changing perspective on “home”:
“After my father’s passing, I discovered a multi-decade archive of his negatives. I sequenced these photographs to understand my parents better and construct a portrait of their lives in the absence of firsthand stories. By pairing them with my own work, I aim to showcase how a home can change both physically and emotionally, and to animate the stagnant feeling when one partner passes before the other.”
