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Grandpa

My grandfather, Charles Crawford, passed away from Alzheimer's Disease on December 14, 2008 after a life of 84 years. He was one of those people who was everyone's friend. He knew everyone it seemed, and everyone loved him. These are the photographs I have made of him and his home over the years. I spent a lot of my childhood here. I have few photographs of grandma since she didn't like being photographed. I regret not photographing her anyway because now she had been gone for several years when grandpa died.

Now that he's gone too, his home will likely be torn down by developers and replaced with another of the shopping centers or restaurants that now surround his once rural and isolated land and there will be nothing left to remember him but these images.

89 Photographs

 

an old man sits on his old metal motel chairs beside his house with his cat. The man is my grandfather, Charles Crawford

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford

 

My grandfather's cat, mittens, sits in the window of his dining room looking at me. Black cat with white feet

 

grandpa in his grumpy hat. my grandfather, Charles Crawford

 

My grandfather Charles Crawford, standing in the snow behind his house playig his acoustic guitar.

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1996

 

a little gret tabby cat lying on an old rusty metal lawn chair next to my grandfather's house. Two old metal motel chairs

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 11-2005

 

grandpa's dining room

 

Grandpas Dining Room

 

Grandpa and his guitar

 

Laundry Room

 

Prayer

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1-22-06

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1-22-06

 

one of grandpa's cats sitting on the septic tank cover in his backyard. the cat looks mean. She is a brown tabby

 

grandpa's evil gray cat, molly, sits on the old rusting metal motel chairs next to his house. she's looking intently at something in the distance

 

two tabby cats cudding and sleeping together in front of an old house with peeling white paint on the siding

 

Cat Out

 

The Fridge

 

Curio Cabinet

 

Grandpa 3-5-06

 

Molly and Danny

 

Junkpile

 

vines grow up the back of an old rusted out clothes washing machine on grandpa's burn pile

 

grandpa's old yellow rusty metal chairs in the rain next to his house

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, at age 82. photographed April 28, 2007

 

My grandfather, Charles Crawford, laying on his sofa reading the newspaper. Grandpa has alzheimer's disease.

 

old rusty yellow metal motel chairs next to an old white house with peeling paint in rural southwest Allen County, Indiana. Photographed after a rainstorm

 

An old grey cat sleeps in the window with her head bowed. She is half hidden behind a dark curtain.

an old man and his big white german shepherd dog look out the window of his house. The man has his hand on the dog's shoulder. The man is my grandfather, Charles Crawford

 

A bouquet of red roses sits in a vase in my grandfather's house with a wall covered in artwork by his grandchildren in the background

 

My grandfather's cat, mittens, looks out the window of his dining room. Black cat with white feet

 

grandpa's house under gathering winter storm clouds. Grandpa can be seen walking in the background. Small white house in rural Allen County, Indiana

 

My grandfather Charles Crawford, standing in the snow behind his house playig his acoustic guitar.

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, with shovel in the snow. He is wearing the old hardhat he wore when he was a pipefitter for the local gas utility, NIPSCO

 

my grandfather's little grey tabby cat hunched over her food bowl with a mean look on her face

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 11-2005

 

Apollo in Grandpa's Bed

 

Not Speaking

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1999

 

Hair Dryer

 

Grandpa and Molly

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1-22-06

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1-22-06

 

a cute tabby kitten sits in the spare tire of my father's old motorhome in grandpa's backyard

 

old abandoned dog house overgrown by weeds in my grandfather's yard in Allen County, Indiana

 

old rusty bicycle on a junkpile behind a house in rural Indiana

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1995

 

Height Chart

 

Pencil Sharpener

 

Grandpa 3-5-06

 

Apollo stealing food

 

Chairs in the rain

 

A white house in rural Indiana with a melting snowman in the front yard.

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, photographed behind his house, april 27, 2007

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, at age 82. photographed April 28, 2007

 

Grandpa's 17 year old cat laying on his couch in a darkened room

 

A big white German Shepherd mix dog lies on a tile flor with one eye open. He is wearing a nylon dog harness.

 

A tattered armchair sits in fromt of a wall covered in children's artwork in my grandfather's living room.

 

A child's drawing of a man and his house hangs on a window with a suction cup.

 

 

 

 

 

Christopher Crawford
Fort Wayne, IN

chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com

 

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an old man leans on the wall in his kitchen talking on the phone. The man is my grandfather, Charles Crawford

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, eating a bowl of cereal for breakfast at his kitchen table. A prayer book from the Lutheran church sits on the table

 

Two old metal motel chairs sit next to my grandfather's house in the snow. Rusty old metal lawn chairs

 

My grandfather's little grey cat stands on an old rusty metal lawn chair while his white german shepherd dog runs in the background. The ground is covered in fallen leaves. Motel Chairs

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, in his hardhat from NIPSCO

 

grandpa's bedroom with sparse furnishings and bare walls. The two dressers are covered in momentos and family photos.

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 10-7-04

 

Dining room

 

Dining Room Wall

 

Grandpa & Molly 1999

 

Let Me Out

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1-22-06

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, 1-22-06

 

Molly on the chairs

 

one of grandpa's cats sits on the back bumper of my father's old motorhome in grandpa's back yard. She has a wary look on her face. The cat is a brown tabby

 

Grandpa's evil gray cat, Molly, hunting mice around his old red barn

 

old rusty bicycle on a junkpile behind a house in rural Indiana. The bike is overgrown with weeds and grass

 

Grandpa's Chairs

 

Phone

 

Pencil Sharpener

 

Grandpa 3-5-06

 

My grandpa's kitchen. On the cabinet is a calender from the Great Wall Chinese Buffet, a doll's head, and several name tags from when he visited his grandchildren at school

 

Mailbox on the burn pile

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, in 2001

 

grandpa's cat, molly, sits in the driveway

 

my grandfather, Charles Crawford, at age 82. photographed April 28, 2007

 

old rusty yellow metal motel chairs next to an old white house with peeling paint in rural southwest Allen County, Indiana.

 

Charles crawford in March, 2008 suffering from alzheimer's disease.

 

Charles Crawford, an elderly man with Alzheimer's Disease petting his cat. The cat is laying on the old man's lap.