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Jenny Heland-Chaplin's avatar

To photograph is to breathe, be calm and solely focus on one subject. It is a peaceful moment in time that can lead to ‘Le Petit Mort’ on occasions. It is Love, Passion, Desire yet also intense Grief, Loss and Sadness. It is such a deep personal, intimate account of self reflection and personal choice. To photograph is to Be.

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Roger Fay's avatar

Currently, I am putting together a book of photographs and text about my later mother. Somehow photographs from pre-Holocaust Europe survived and made their way to Australia where I live. As I select and place many of these photographs into the book publishing software, I have many times looked intensely at the just-pre-war photographs of my mother and am drawn into a reverie about her life then and her beauty, and the knowledge that she could not know what horrors were about to befall her and her entire family and community. So, as I read the excerpt from Tim Carpenter's book, I felt the full force of his understanding of what is and what is not.

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