On the day of his graduation, Tori asked his father an unusual gesture: take it back in his arms, just as he had done when he was just born.
To understand the meaning of that request you must return to 2000.
Dennis Roach just graduated from Huntsville High School, Texas. He wore toga and touch and, to remember that moment, he took pictures with his daughter Tori still in bands in his arms.
Then it was just the image of a young father on an important day.
Eighteen years later, however, that photograph became the starting point to tell everything that had happened in the meantime.
In May 2018, Tori graduated from the same school. Before greeting those classrooms forever, he wanted to recreate his father's shot.
Same pose, same complicity. Only the girl wrapped in a blanket was now a young woman with a diploma in her hand.
Dennis lifted it once again and Tori published the two images next to each other with a simple phrase: 18 years later.
The photographs toured social media because they showed something that is often not seen in the images of great occasions: the time spent between one moment and another.
In those eighteen years there were the growth of a daughter, the responsibilities of a father, the difficulties faced and a presence remained constant.
The strength of those two photographs is not in the likeness of pose.
It is that Dennis was still there, ready to support Tori as on the first day of his life.
The photographs stop a moment. Some, when they are observed together, can also tell everything that has remained in time.