Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 3/3/2021 4:02:03 PM
Elsa Voelcker said her mother Kathryn was “impossible to photograph.” But as her mother approached her final days, Voelcker knew she wanted to capture some of those raw moments before her mom passed. She found one, a photograph of her mother’s hand wearing a ring that belonged to Voelcker’s great-grandmother, particularly moving.
“I took it in her last hours of life,” Voelcker said. “It was powerful.”
She has shared that photograph with countless students over her teaching career at both Franklin Pierce University and Saint Anselm College to show just how impactful a camera in hand can be.