Tytia Habing
Tytia Habing lives among sprawling corn and soybean fields in rural Illinois. The image of her son on this month’s cover is part of her series “This Is Boy.” Her photographs have appeared in SHOTS, Orion, and F-Stop. She once tied her sheets together and threw them out a window to save her toddler, her husband, and herself from an apartment fire. Yes, it actually worked.
A Boy
Seven years ago, when Tytia Habing first became pregnant, she secretly hoped for a girl. She got a boy instead, and ever since, she says, her life has been “filled with dirt, broken toys, shoes full of sand, sticks, scraped knees, cut-up cardboard boxes, mud, toy guns, dinky cars, and a never-ending sense of amazement at this foreign little creature I brought into the world.”
September 2015
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