(my mum & dad)

(my mum & i in the driveway of grandma & grandpa wood's house)

(me in my crib... the resemblance with my own son is uncanny)

(me & my dad... yep, daddy's little girl for life)

what is a photograph?

it's something you can feel. deeply. in the middle of your chest.

a photograph is a reminder. a reminder of someone, of something, in the past... almost guaranteed to have shifted or changed or departed.

it is an answer, an insight, a story.

i look at my parents, embracing, laughing from that honest, pure and real place inside themselves (you can almost hear it). in the sunshine, in the country... with someone holding a camera. a collaboration.

who we don't see is part of this story. the author. the camera operator. the friend.

as photographers we hold a key, we open a door, we invite.

when you look back, all you see is the beauty. how gorgeous you were, how young. how happy and in love.

what a gift is the photograph.