Is it possible to photograph love? Last Valentine’s Day, we pulled together a selection of photographers’ pictures of their own companions, lovers, and partners. This year, we focussed on photographers’ images of other couples—the work of looking at love, rather than being in it.
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<i><a href="http://jillianknight.com/" target="_blank">Jill Knight</a>, “Love and the Academy” (2013)</i><br>Larry sent Daniel off to work on the morning I took this photograph in the same manner in which so many other people send their loved ones off each day. Larry with arms crossed and Daniel with coffee in hand, it was quick and casual. But this was a kiss between pioneers. In November, 2013, Daniel Lennox-Choate and Larry Lennox-Choate III became the first male West Point graduates to be married in a same-sex ceremony at the United States Military Academy’s Cadet Chapel. My favorite moments to photograph are those that are so intimate that I want to keep my camera glued close to my face, a barrier between myself and the love that’s happening in front of me. I’ll stay there, eye pressed to the viewfinder, waiting for that right moment and leaving it undisturbed. And then it happens, and that lovely and relatable moment is suspended in my frame.
