In her new book, Juggling Is Easy, Peggy Nolan invites us into her home in the 1980s and 1990s and shows us how her children lived. "I was attuned to the fact that they wanted privacy and couldn't get it," says Nolan. "We were above each other." For a long time, Peggy Nolan slept on the couch while the children shared bedrooms. "I always tried to give my girls their own space." Peggy Nolan first bought a camera in the early 1980s, when her father gave her a Nikon that someone had sold to her pawnbroker. At the time, she was raising four sons and three daughters, all born between 1967 and 1982, in government-subsidized housing in Miami amid a marriage of crises and housing starts. Photography seemed innate to Nolan from the start: how to frame a shot, how to consider the edges. She quickly got hooked, taking thousands of photos of her children in mosh pits, jumping off bridges and recovering from car accidents. As mothers do. "I really like teenagers," Nolan tells me. "They think they can live forever. The angst, the anger, the excitement, the future, the risk-taking... I see it all. They don't hide it."
TBW Books, 2023
106 pages
21.5 × 28 cm
ISBN: 9781942953623
In her new book, Juggling Is Easy, Peggy Nolan invites us into her home in the 1980s and 1990s and shows us how her children lived. "I was attuned to the fact that they wanted privacy and couldn't get it," says Nolan. "We were above each other." For a long time, Peggy Nolan slept on the couch while the children shared bedrooms. "I always tried to give my girls their own space." Peggy Nolan first bought a camera in the early 1980s, when her father gave her a Nikon that someone had sold to her pawnbroker. At the time, she was raising four sons and three daughters, all born between 1967 and 1982, in government-subsidized housing in Miami amid a marriage of crises and housing starts. Photography seemed innate to Nolan from the start: how to frame a shot, how to consider the edges. She quickly got hooked, taking thousands of photos of her children in mosh pits, jumping off bridges and recovering from car accidents. As mothers do. "I really like teenagers," Nolan tells me. "They think they can live forever. The angst, the anger, the excitement, the future, the risk-taking... I see it all. They don't hide it."
TBW Books, 2023
106 pages
21.5 × 28 cm
ISBN: 9781942953623
