The aim was to produce images that families would be proud to hang on their walls not just for a couple of years after they’d been taken, but as the children became teenagers and the teenagers became adults with children of their own.
When I left university to strike out as a professional photographer, I wanted to do for other families what my Dad had done for ours, and I knew instinctively that my images would be black and white. The aim was to produce images that families would be proud to hang on their walls not just for a couple of years after they’d been taken, but as the children became teenagers and the teenagers became adults with children of their own. I wanted to create something that would last.