There's a particular kind of light that settles over Gambier, Ohio in early May, the kind that filters through a tree canopy a mile long and makes everything underneath it look like it's already a memory. That's where I spent the morning with Walt, a few days before his graduation from Kenyon College.

Walt's family is from Chicago. He's now home for the summer before heading to California this fall, and his mom booked this session as a way to hold onto exactly who he is right now, before that next shift happens. A few weeks ahead of the session, I spent a morning walking the campus with Walt himself, and he showed me the places that actually mattered to him rather than the ones that simply photograph well. Everything below came out of that walk.

I started in the village. Coffee from Wiggin Street Coffee, his reflection caught in the window glass. This was one I'd specifically wanted to capture: an image meant to be noticed, not posed. A morning started in reflection.