My brother’s graduation from high school was an emotional time.

I undertook a short, creative project in which I filmed our family and friends together, on the night of his graduation, celebrating at a pub.

I chose the time of night when people were leaving to give the video greater emotional weight; leaving to go home, where reality would now be different, and in which the act of saying goodbye was both a sad and happy occasion. Having loved ones to say goodbye to is, I have found, an inherently joyful thing, no matter the circumstances.