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SEPTEMBER IS THE CRUELLEST MONTH.
My latest project is called "September is the Cruellest Month." These portraits were taken over the summer of 2010 when I came to the stark realisation that my children are growing up (and to a point away) from me, and that time passes and is never recaptured - we are only left with memories and photographs. THIAPS
Taken on a 4×5 large format camera (Toyo 45A), using Fuji's instant black and white film (FP-100b45), I wanted to capture moments of our summer together whether it be in play, at the mountains, at the sea, moments of contemplation ... moments that don't necessarily record the act but will trigger the memory and emotion I felt in years to come when I look back and hold these images in my hand. I am photographing for the future as well as the present.
Why "September is the cruellest month"? Because it is the time when I have to let my children go back out into the world again without me. The summer holiday is now over. Back to school, back to their clubs, progressing, moving on. Something we all embrace and want for them, but secretly wanting to hold back time a little bit longer. We can't stop time but we can freeze it for a split second in our images.
I have had an interest in photography for many years. Before I started working in photography seriously I was studying for a Ph.d in Women's War and Holocaust Writing and teaching literature in adult education. However just before my daughter was born just over 5 years ago, bored and heavily pregnant I enrolled for a darkroom course at our local adult education college.
My photographic journey began in earnest with a digital camera until I went to university for a year and learned darkroom skills and started working with medium and large format cameras. This year I have completed a course in wet-plate collodion with Carl Radford and this is now a medium I am actively working with.
By: Deborah Parkin (United-Kingdom)
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My photographic journey began in earnest with a digital camera until I went to university for a year and learned darkroom skills and started working with medium and large format cameras. This year I have completed a course in wet-plate collodion with Carl Radford and this is now a medium I am actively working with.
By: Deborah Parkin (United-Kingdom)
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright ©Deborah Parkin . All rights reserved. This photo is not to be
used as free stock. Use without written consent by the author (Deborah Parkin ) is
illegal and punishable by law
