Some Days We Caught Rainbows
(2009 - ongoing)
Some Days We Caught Rainbows is an ongoing personal project about how people deal with change, specifically how I dealt with the transition of becoming a parent.
How people deal with change has always fascinated me. I didn’t examine how I dealt with change until I became a father. At first, adapting to the change of becoming a new parent was very difficult for me. I was constantly being pulled in multiple directions and was unsure of my role a father.
As my daughter got older and her personality developed, things had become a little easier. The fear I had known when she was a newborn was now replaced with a sense of hope that helped to erase those initial insecurities.
When she entered school I recognized the challenge of introducing the responsibilities of life to a child yet encouraging them to keep that sense of youthful wonder. I felt that it was my responsibility to preserve her sense of curiosity. Part of the change parenthood has brought is noticing what I have lost as an adult and the recognition of what I wish I still had as I grow older.
Creating this project for me started off as a way to document moments in life before they faded into memories and a way for my daughter to remember her childhood. The accompanying text is an imagined conversation with her looking back, recalling those younger days.
Now as my daughter is in her teenage years with high school on the horizon, my role as a parent continues to evolve. This work remains unresolved as life continues on... she is growing up, I am learning to give her space and learning to let go.












Book and Awards
Some Days We Caught Rainbows
Date: 2018
Pages: 122
Images: 56
Size: 8”x10”
Softcover (trade version)
Self-published (printed through Blurb)
Story concept, photography, design by Mark Peterman
ISBN: 9780464706052
Price: $29.99
Also see the 2014 hard cover (limited edition version) here.
Exhibitions & Awards
The book has been selected for the following awards annuals and photo book exhibitions:
2018 Self-Published Photobook Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Ma
2017 The 8th Annual Self-Published Photobook Exhibition, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016-2017 Self-Published Photobook Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Az
2015 Not My Family Values, Art Photo Index (online)