My parents separated when I was seven, and their divorce was final by the time I was eleven. I didn’t have a strong relationship with my father before the divorce and afterwards I barely saw him at all, eventually creating an almost 20 year gap. In 2001 I faced my own divorce with our three-year-old son in the middle. My biggest concern was the effect this would have on him and our relationship. I vowed never to let him feel the vacuum I did.

Since then, I’ve remarried, had a daughter, and my son now lives 50 miles away. Every other weekend, minus the driving and sleeping, we do what we can with roughly 28 hours. With no personal history to pull from, the father-son relationship is new to both of us. Alternating Weekends is an ongoing project, an outlet to identify and explore our dynamic and the connections I missed as a son.
I prefer to use cheap, toy cameras when photographing my son. The cameras themselves can seem silly and trivial, letting my son relax and be natural. The low-fi optics, lack of controls and inherent flaws in these tools echo the chaos and imperfections of our dynamic. The affected results illustrate a view of our relationship filtered through my past.

About Warren Harold:
Warren Harold graduated with a BS in Photography from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas in December 1993. Warren worked for seven years assisting and ultimately managing the digital production of Craig Stewart Studio in Houston. He currently works as Quality Control Lead in the NASA – Johnson Space Center Photo Operations Group. His toy camera and pinhole images have been included in several group shows and publications leading to his first solo exhibit at the SRO Photo Gallery in Lubbock, TX in 2012.