In this photo album, Allyssa and her best friend, Jake, document their relationship, which is going on six years now.
Notes in pink (and their accompanying photos) are by Alyssa; notes in black (and photos) are Jake’s.Jake Sigl is an NYC-based artist whose work blends documentary with fantasy. He’s interested in gender issues, performance, and identity.
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This is beautiful.
This is absolutely beautiful! Very well written and gorgeous photos – I love this far too much and long for a friendship as lovely :)
Chloe xx
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This is so insanely cute!!
ALYSSA, JAKE, I’M CRYING!!! the most beautiful thing ever
This is sooo gorgeous and amazing.
Note to self: acquire a best friend.
These pictures made me think about my best friend Smiffy! Although comparatively I haven’t known him that long these photos make me remember all the good times we’ve had, like hanging out at the station in my village on the hottest and coldest days of the year, and all the good times still to come :)
ALL THE TEARS. <3
my heart is melted
This is gorgeous
This is like the most beautiful thing ever. I love #19.
These photos are amazing!
The concept is so simple and genuine and honest, i just feel them and appreciate them so much.
It has made me want to do this with my best friend absolutely.
i really enjoyed this, very poignant.
oooh. so achingly sweet & beautiful. <3
This is the most beautiful, just gorgeous thing I’ve seen on Rookie yet.
This has touched me so deeply. These pictures are so intimate, so raw, so just…beautiful. Thank you thank you thank you for sharing your life with all of us here. I’m in love with your love.
I LOVE it. this is the best thing ever seen on rookie ! <3
so so so so so beautiful <3
This is so gorgeous <3
I just got introduced to Rookie yesterday, and it’s been amazing. These stories are absolutely beautiful.
Welcome to the family (: Rookie is always the best end to a dismal schoolday!
This is one of the most gorgeous things I have ever seen.
I have never before in my life seen pictures that render my heart, mind, and soul speechless. This couple is the epitome of young love- brutal, messy, and above all, REAL.
Beautiful! I love this!
You have to love someone so much to do a wonderful thing like this. I can feel the love in the pictures!!!! Love it sooo much… :)))
This is beyond gorgeous and it made me want to cry. I feel like I can kind of relate. Though we’ve known each other for only two years, my best friend and I have a similar relationship. I don’t know what I would do without him. I can only hope that we remain best friends and grow as close as you and Jake throughout the years. Much love to you both.
This is simply beautiful. :)
so beautiful and heartwarming and just ahhh my insides feel like a melting candle after looking at this!!!
THIS WAS SO BEAUTIFUL
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read through this while listening to beyoncé’s “i was here” for a good sob.
This is the most incredible thing! Im crying!
this is so beautiful. the first picture describes me and my best friend so well.
I was actually thinking of sending a project VERY similar to this to Rookie this week! I’ve compiled all the text message conversations me and my significant-other-male-best-friend -forever-soul-connection and I have ever had and have been making them into a little multi-media project for my school’s media festival! You two remind me so much of us I started to cry!
I LOVE THIS. Rookie, can friendship photo diaries be like, a thing?
This is so overwhelmingly beautiful. One can only hope to have any kind of wonderful bond in their life time.
This is so amazing!
Oh My God, this is the loveliest, cutest thing i have seen ever, EVER.
One of the most beautiful articles on rookie evurrr ♡
OMG guys, this is so beautiful! I’m crying! :’) You two seem like really awesome people. I hope to find love like that someday soon <3
Love has never looked so special and real and beautiful. ugh. This is the kind of love that I hope to find.
This makes me think of Just Kids and makes me feel so much happier to just be HERE, ya know? <<<<<<<3 times infinityyyyyyyy
I want to cry but this is too gorgeous, I need a friendship like this. xx
i have someone who i consider my bestfriend/boyfriend/family and looking at this of you guys i am crying SO HARD ohgosh you’re beautiful.
I started looking through this and these people, they looked vaguely familiar. and then i was like jake sigl… where have i heard that name before??
THESE PEOLPE WENT TO MY HIGH SCHOOL!!!
ahhh that makes me so happy rookie is all intertwined with my life
but really not to be all creepy alyssa, I used to think you were like the coolest girl in school. I’m not lying. You wore a fur coat once and I saw it and was like THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON EVER.
I wasn’t even going to go to grad night but now that i know there might be a bounce house, I might just have to go…
So amazing and beautiful and heart-warming!! All of the pictures and the captions are perfect.
Ahhhh I’m all teary!!!
that was really sweet
this is lovely, it makes me want a relationship and wonderful as yours.
omg all these cute boyfriend/girlfriend/relationship posts ahhh just want this. Not even just a mate I want a best friend. Hopefully ill get to experience this :/…but this is seriously so cute and I love all the photos! <3
I’m crying! this is so touching! I’m in the same boat with ya, but my best friend and I haven’t known each other for that long, only 2 years… but it’s the best feeling to be able to not hold back with him
<3 <3 <3
This is the cutest and most beautiful thing ever. Awwwww so sweet…
this was absolutely hands down beautiful… I never want anything that isn’t this :)
This is so beautiful and so sweet! :)
So wonderful! This is what true friendship looks like.
I think this is what photography is all about, the intimacy if why we choose to take a moment in life to capture. Absolute favorite photoset on Rookie, so beautiful.
Well that was really really awesome.
xx Domenic
I never really saw the point of having a best friend but this makes me realize how special that kind of relationship can be. Thank you this was beautiful and gorgeous and a bunch of other adjectives.
Thank you all so much for your sweet responses, it brought tears to my eyes
This is absolutely breathtaking
I am speechless. Beautiful.
This is one of my favourite things on Rookie ever <3 beautiful!
This really shows that pictures say 1000 words. They didn’t need flamboyant writing to show their meaning. Wonderful :D :D
This is beautiful.
This is so perfect, it seems made up because of how magical and awesome and wowish it is.
This is brilliant and I’m going to go hug my best friend now. Oh my goodness, this was the sweetest post I have ever seen on Rookie.
Too sweet <3 <3 I'm sure you'll have many many more beautiful times together!!
this is one of my favourite things i’ve seen on rookie. really gorgeous, i’m jealous of you having such a perfect record of your friendship!
(also, your experience of prom sounds incredible).
this is perfect. I want a friendship like this!
Like everybody said…beautiful. When I was 15 also I became friends with this guy and over seven years later he is still the most special person in my life. Two years ago we got together romantically and it is the best. This lovely photobook reminded me of me and him a lot. <3 : )
lovely! Real love!!
Love this!!!!!
SOOO CUTE AND TOUCHING.
PS: and I still want to be too advertise-ish, but I made a rookie zine and it would be so awesome if you could check it out!!
I’m crying, this is has restored my faith in humanity!
I like the one where it’s a picture of both of them, with her on the bed & him in shadow. Aww.
this is the best thing i have ever seen on rookie.
AAAAAAA MY HEARRRT!!!
This is so absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing this.
I want thisss, I want to do this with my group of friends!! It’s beautifuuul.
This is so beautiful that I don’t have words. Literally.
This was amazing, literally. I feel like I was sharing the experience with them and I didn’t want the slide to be over but it did :( It was a really strange feeling, when you see somebody’s handwriting it’s like you see them, reading something in handwriting is so important. And the photos, they were so beautiful and when they explain the situations on photos I felt like I’m living the same memories with them. It was magical. And also, this is literally the best friendship ever.
I just gotta honesty say, that overall, it was heartbreaking.
But it was also enjoyable.
All I can say about this is, great, wonderful, fantastic, amazing job.
Whoever wrote this, just simply amazing.
It’s really quite touching.
This is one of the most beautiful photo sets I’ve ever seen. Absolutely amazing.
this was honestly one of the most special things i’ve ever seen. i hope i find my person someday!
these pictures are so beautiful and feel so personal. i want to have a friend like that someday.
im crying. im crying. this is so beautiful I cant deal with this. ive looked through this set at least 5 times already. xxxxx
Whoa. I want to experience, just once in my life, an Allyssa-and-Jake type of relationship.
You guys made me cry! <3
I’m in love with these pictures and notes, and of course with this friendship/relationship in general. So beautiful.
i’m in class and i might just actually start crying.
Holy shit this is beautiful, I think I may have just teared up.
i kind of wrote about something this photo set reminds me of on my blog
i also attached a photo of it
i hope my wild copyright infringement is ok with u, rookie
i only love u best!!
Oh my. This is so beautiful and touching and my heart feels all warm and fuzzy now. What a wonderful relationship, turned into a just as wonderful photo diary. ♥