© Mitch Epstein

My son Nick and I spent some time this morning looking through the photographs on Mitch Epstein’s website. This photo, Dad And My Daughter, Lucia 2002, must have interested him the most since he kept asking to go back to “the picture of the man and the girl.”

He asked questions like “why are they just sitting there?” and “why is it dark in the corner?” and “who are they?” I told him it was a girl and her grandfather spending some time together.

When I asked him what he saw when he looked at the photo he paused for a second and said, “love.”