The Sun was Gold like a Yolk Dripping by Daniel Dorsa

In summer 2025, DANIEL DORSA traveled to Ohio to visit family members there for the first time since HE went as a child in 1999. There HE created “THE SUN WAS GOLD LIKE A YOLK,” a photobook made in collaboration with WePresent documenting a place where, FOR HIM, time stops.

Here, in HIS own words, DANIEL describes the feeling of being in Ohio with her family, and what he found and turned his lens to when she returned to Heath 26 years after his formative visit.

Ohio was my first introduction to anything overtly American outside of watching TV. My mum’s brother moved to Ohio in the early 1990s with his wife and son to join his daughter, her American husband and their children. Eventually his grandchildren had kids, then the kids had kids, and now the kids’ kids have kids; and now four generations of one family live in two houses right next door to each other on a tree-lined cul-de-sac.

We went to visit them in 1999. I have fragmented, warm memories of fireflies, maple trees, instant friendships with cousins, and my uncle’s house crammed with ornaments and heaps of stuff we were never told off for playing with. I don’t remember it ever being quiet: my parents and my uncle’s family would sit around the kitchen table talking about whatever; and as you walked through the house, the noise from one television would fade and reach a crescendo as you approached a new room. Cartoons in the basement blended into a police chase in the kitchen and then merged with bad news in the front room.

“THE SUN WAS GOLD LIKE A YOLK” by DANIEL DORSA is published by WePresent AND DMB ORIGINALS©, and will be available to buy at IDEA from December 12. On December 3 DANIEL will be signing advance copies exclusively at Dover Street Market, London