BALTIMORE — Some journeys begin on foot, with a frightened glance over the shoulder and a rush into the night. But Larry W. Cook Jr.’s great migration began with the click of his camera lens.
In 2019, during a single devastating year, the 36-year-old photographer and assistant professor at Howard University lost two people he loved dearly: the single mother who had raised him, and his younger brother and best friend. So Cook Jr. picked up his camera and went in search of the only person still living from his birth family — his father, Larry W. Cook Sr., who had been absent from his sons’ lives for most of their childhoods.
“My younger brother, Kevin, and I would see him maybe once or twice a year,” said Cook Jr., who lives in Laurel. “I had a lot of anger inside, to the point where I built a wall to protect myself.”
