# @itsnicethat on Instagram - **Type:** Image - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeJoNiql9Mq - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71390173-itsnicethat-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/266a08c49f.jpg - **Posted:** 2026-10-06T11:01:36.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** It's Nice That (@itsnicethat) — https://gondola.cc/itsnicethat ## Caption Chronograph, the new photobook by Los Angeles-based photographer NickHaymes, published by Mack_Publishing, begins with a sledgehammer image: the destruction of the Twin Towers, which fell 25 years ago this year. At first, it’s a startling gut-punch of an opening, especially as the viewer flicks through this large photographic collection of Nick’s two kids, Philipp and Lawrence. It doesn’t take long, however, as we stare into the familiarity of these sentimental childhood photos, filled with drooling baby faces, bright eyes and porcelain skin that blooms into teenage acne and whispery facial hair, to realise there was no other way to begin such a collection. As two monoliths of Western iconography fell in New York City, elsewhere, two boys began growing up. It’s a narrative that is equally as macro and micro. It’s through Chronograph that Nick makes some of his greatest statements on youth, pain and loss – it’s almost impossible to escape the shadow of that very first image, but it’s equally as impossible not to fall into a dream-like reverie as we grow up in parallel with Philipp and Lawrence. Over on the site this week we speak to Nick and his sons Philipp Lerman and Lawrence Haymes in a unique interview about this wonderful book and themes of permission, growing up and how photographs are a way to hold on to the living. Head on over to the link in our bio to give the full piece a read. #ItsNiceThat ## Stats - **Views:** 0 - **Likes:** 590 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 7 ## Credits No public credits are recorded here. This does not identify who made the post. ## Tags itsnicethat --- Copyright (c) Gondola