Fiore Italiano (Italian Flower)
My
parents and my parents’ parents and the generations before them grew up with
what you can call a green thumb. My Nana, 91, on my mother’s side, still lives
on a handful of acres on Long Island that my grandfather, her husband, and his
father had worked for to buy for my family. With all this land they built
gardens, green houses, and planted countless trees and raised farm animals.
When
I spoke to each of the owners of “The Little Flower Shop” in Locust Valley, New
York and “Constantino’s” in Glen Cove, New York, I fell in love with them
immediately because they reminded me of my family. Both of the owners are not
originally from America and they came here with whatever money was in their
pocket in search of a different life. They came here and found that they could
not achieve the job they had imagined for themselves, but along the way they
discovered a love for growing and tending to common and exotic plants.
In
this series of photographs my main purpose was to show the viewers the owners
and what their hard work has accomplished.
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