Living Three Centuries: The Face of Age108 year-old American man of English descent.
He grew up on a Montana ranch that he later inherited from his father,who lived to 101.He had 1,500 head of cattle and rode Kentucky-bred horses.
Fifty years ago he liked to drink whiskey and gamble.Now he's into fitness;at 102 he was still doing thirty push-ups a day.
He walks a mile to church every Sunday in his black cowboy boots,white suit, pink tie and Stetson hat."I don't drink, smoke or chase women;"he says, "they chase me."
"The photographs for this portrait series were taken in various locations around the world between 1987 and 2005.
The Gerontology Research Group estimates there are 250,000 centenarians (people 100 years and older) currently living in the world. In rare instances, people live to 110 years and beyond, inspiring a new demographic label: supercentenarian. The Gerontology Research Group, through rigorous investigation of records, acknowledges about 65 supercentenarians, and estimates that about 350 are alive worldwide today.
The idea to photograph people who have lived in three centuries evolved over the course of the project. First, I was simply interested in taking portraits of people who appear worn beyond their years by living extraordinarily hard lives. Those experiences drew me to centenarians, and on to supercentenarians and their stories." - Mark Story
The text above, as well as portraits, are at http://www.markstoryphotography.com/
(found at http://www.boingboing.net through http://www.ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/)
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