I first picked up a camera at the age of eight and haven’t put it down since. Still, the seeds of my photography were planted by my PopPop, Paul Somerville, Jr., a Cheyney graduate, brilliant student, and educational leader, who went nowhere without his camera. PopPop always captured the moments for which words alone could not suffice—unbridled enthusiasm and enjoyment of family and fraternity, fleeting moments and encounters, a mother’s wonder or lassitude at the end of a day, a child’s ebullience and natural curiosity, or the display of endearment at his little sister’s college graduation while his mother—my Nana—looked on with overwhelming pride and gratitude. Like PopPop’s camera, photography provides me with a unique lens for capturing life’s most indelible moments and telling stories that cannot be told in words alone.