I'm a 4th generation photographer in my family, my great-grandfather who taught my grandfather, who taught my mother - who taught me. My grandmother was also heavily involved in photography -but she didn't like B&W at all. However, As soon as colour film came out she was buying it, she liked to print vivid dye transfer prints. While my grandfather with his 8X10 view camera, preferred the subtle tones of B&W and he taught me how to develop film from 35mm to 8X10. He taught me platinum printing, how to use view cameras, the Zone system and the landscape photography in the style of the f/64 group. My grandmother who preferred small 35mm camera systems and small medium format systems (she travelled internationally a lot) taught me dye transfer printing, introduced me to street photography and studio photography and colour printing. My mother, in a similar fashion to her mother preferred 35mm cameras especially Leica range finders and their incredibly fast lenses. My mother taught me sports and wildlife photography techniques, how to use Long lenses and stabilisation techniques, Macro photography techniques. My uncle who was a pilot took us on flights for areal photography.
Photography is immortalising an impermanent moment in an impermanent universe. My great grandfather and grandparents are gone, my mother hasn't used a camera in years, I'm all that's left - and that is why I have such a massive collection of camera gear at my disposal.