Ongoing Alumni Archive · Simeon Career Academy · Class of 2007

Simeon Class of ’07 Archive

Photography · Video · Community · Memory

Documenting the people I came up with.

Simeon is my high school, and the Class of 2007 gatherings gave me a chance to bring my professional media practice back into my own community. I began documenting the class through photography and video, not as a one-time event job, but as an archive I can continue building over the years.

Each year adds another chapter: the people who return, the relationships that stay connected, the moments that change, and even the years when I cannot be there.

01 · 2024

Meet & Greet

The 2024 Meet & Greet captures the quieter beginning of the reunion cycle: conversations, reconnection, portraits, and candid moments before the larger cookout.

02 · 2024

Alumni Cookout

The cookout expanded the project into a fuller event story, combining still photography with motion coverage so the energy, personalities, and atmosphere could live beyond the day itself.

2024 Film

Watch the Cookout

Video adds sound, movement, and interaction to the still archive.

2025

Deployment Year

The missing year is part of the archive too.

I was deployed in 2025, so I could not document the gathering the way I had in 2024. Instead of hiding the gap, the archive acknowledges it. Long-term documentation is shaped by real life, availability, and the distance between one chapter and the next.

03 · 2026

Return to the Cookout

The 2026 film continues the visual record after the deployment year and keeps the project moving as a living Class of '07 archive.

2026 Film

The archive continues.

New years can be added to this same page as the project grows.

ONGOING ARCHIVE

Class of ’07.
Still being documented.

Future meetups, cookouts, photographs, and films can continue here without turning each year into an isolated portfolio piece.