As Long As We Both Shall Live Project

As Long As We Both Shall Live is a documentary project combining formal and environmental portraiture with interview text in an attempt to critically examine the institution of marriage in the United States, its changes and its rapid evolution over the last three generations. By looking at a wide range of marriages whose sole commonality is that they have endured for more than 40 years, this unique, nationwide undertaking reflects the multitude of reasons that couples from an earlier era chose to make a lifelong commitment to their union, sounds them out about the transition marriage has undergone during their lifetime, and provides a touchstone for its audience to examine its own knowledge and assumptions about marriage, intimacy, family, gender roles, and the evolution of cultural and generational values.