TITLE: Promise fulfilled

Since childhood I have a special soul connection with my beloved grandfather.
He taught me that you need humor in life and should not only "function" in society like a machine.
As a teenager, he let me drive his Volvo on the campsite and taught me how to drive.
When there were problems at school or with my parents, he was there for me like a friend.

This made me ask him for a promise in my youth: Namely, that he would live to be 100 years old!
In July 2023 he had reached 103 years of life and I decided to make a portrait series of him, to honor him and record it for eternity.
He died in September 2023.

AUTHOR: Lennard Grohn (Germany)

Lennard Grohn is a German photographic artist based in Frankfurt am Main.

He studied photography at the University of Fine Arts in Mainz, where his approach to light, drawing and composition was shaped. Working primarily in black and white, he develops long-term series that explore memory, intimacy and quiet transformation through a reduced, minimalist visual language.
His work moves between presence and absence, silence and emotional intensity, ranging from intimate portraits to poetic landscapes.

Alongside photography, he has a background in music as a drummer and percussionist, which informs his sense of rhythm and restraint.