Ella's First Candle
42 images Created 6 Jul 2011
This project is about the first year in the life of my first child, Ella.
These '52' weekly images are accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes. This work describes the journey for my wife Lynda - from expectant, to actual motherhood, and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
It is my hope that the viewer is reminded of the story of their own children and indeed, of themselves. For myself, the shooting and editing processes brought many personal memories back, reminding me of long forgotten events.
These images are very personal and while I never doubted the project and its objectives, there are certain images that I felt weren't appropriate for an outside audience and could well have been removed. Eventually, it became clear that this was a universal story that any culture could understand
Part 2 starts 18-months later after the birth of our second child, a series is in a gallery called Next of Kin: http://bit.ly/bbF06s
These '52' weekly images are accompanied by personal reflections and references from various nursery rhymes. This work describes the journey for my wife Lynda - from expectant, to actual motherhood, and for Ella - from new-born to one year-old.
It is my hope that the viewer is reminded of the story of their own children and indeed, of themselves. For myself, the shooting and editing processes brought many personal memories back, reminding me of long forgotten events.
These images are very personal and while I never doubted the project and its objectives, there are certain images that I felt weren't appropriate for an outside audience and could well have been removed. Eventually, it became clear that this was a universal story that any culture could understand
Part 2 starts 18-months later after the birth of our second child, a series is in a gallery called Next of Kin: http://bit.ly/bbF06s
