How old are you? Bernice Madigan celebrates her 115th birthday this week on July 24, 2014. Subtract your age from 115 and ponder for a moment. There is so much ahead for you.

The pictures I’ve made are mile markers in my life of photography. The people I’ve photographed are always more remarkable than the pictures. The editing process is tough because you want only the best pictures to be printed, but that means some people are left out of the magazine. These are people who’ve let me into their homes, and their lives, on the hope that their story would be told and archived in the stacks of the yellow-bordered magazine that fill homes and libraries around the world. Sometimes,