Archive for the 'On Family' Category

• 12.01.10 Kia Ora
  

  I have put together a book of the series I worked on last year while staying in my grandparents’ house. I named it Kia Ora, after the street in which the house resides.

  
  
• 05.12.09 Remembering Youth Without the Smiles
  

  I was having a discussion with a friend about childhood
  and the time in our lives which shapes us the most.
  We talked about our grandparents’ failing memories;
  How they seem to lose most of them but those from a certain point in childhood remain vivid.

  
  
• 06.08.09 The House That Neville Built – Part 2
  

  I don’t have many vivid memories of my grandfather. I sometimes wonder if I had photographed him, would it feel different to look at the pictures? Would I feel more connected?

  Even seeing myself in images as a child, I don’t feel a sense of familiarity. So it seems like a struggle to feel familiar with [...]

  
  
• 27.03.09 The House That Neville Built
  

  At 98 years old my grandmother could no longer look after herself and finally had to leave her house. Her husband, Neville, died about 10 years ago. He was a carpenter and built the house himself.

  It was also home to my mother and her four sibilings. I remember going to many family get-togethers with the [...]