“Five years ago I discovered my brother’s Olympus FE- 115 camera in the closet of his childhood bedroom. It hadn’t been used in 13 years and he didn’t want it. I was charmed by the full seconds it took for the shutter to close and how quickly it depleted batteries. Sometimes the flash simply wouldn’t go off. I brought it back to college and started capturing the things around me. Life on the hall. The stupid things my friends would do. house shows we put on. How cool we felt. Trips away from school. Trees. Internships. Food. Quiet moments. And as time went by, these unassuming photos became a body of work.

I graduated eight months ago and even though it hasn’t even been a full year, I’m already beginning to feel removed from this world. College is such a specific time. We all wanted to graduate and be done so badly. To never have to eat at the great hall again or go to classes and chapel. Yet even now there’s a part of me that misses it.

This book is for all of you that made it something worth missing.”

-Abraham Fields Jan. 19th, 2025