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Twelve days in Summer: Prologue: July 3rd 2014

This project grew organically over the spring and summer of 2014. I had just completed a first degree in photography and had got into the habit of taking a camera with me at all times. In addition, I had begun a project of creating and posting an image a day as a way to both exercise my technical skills and continue to use photography as a form of engagement and expression with people, places and events happening around me. Little did I know how profound that decision would turn out to be. 

Mum was ill, terminally ill with cancer, but had decided to go for treatment. We’d talked a lot about treatment because I felt that at 86 years old she might want to choose a palliative route as the doctors had explained that they could not cure her. However mum wanted treatment so she could look after dad and appeared to be doing okay after the first round of Chemotherapy…

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  • Project 1: Public Landscapes
  • Project 2: Domestic Landscape
  • Project 3: Out of Place
  • Project 4 Intimate Landscapes
  • Project 5: Evidence
  • Project 6: A Picture of Health
  • Project 7: Blood and Shit
  • Project 8 How I feel
  • Project 9 Code
  • Project 10 Symbols
  • Project 11: Signs
  • Project 12: Imagined Landscapes
  • Project 13: The Face
  • Project 14: The Body
  • Project 15: Blueprint
  • Project 16: Moving
  • Project 17: Feet
  • Project 18: Craft
  • Project 19: Words
  • Project 20: Physical
  • Twelve Days in Summer
    • Day 1: July 24th 2014 Crisis
    • Looking back: June 9th and 18th 2014
    • Day 2: Distractions
    • Day 3: Realisations
    • Day 4: Transition
    • Day 5: Acceptance
    • Day 6: Saying goodbye
    • Day 7: Sorting dad out
    • Day 8: Part 1: Just me and mum
    • Day 8 Part 2: Saying goodbye
    • Day 8: Part 3: The summar BBQ without mum
    • Day 9: Mum struggles and then departs
    • Day 10 - Administration
    • Day 11: Ritual Farewell
    • Day 12: Residue
  • Getting On
  • Dad (2016)
  • Emergency
  • Heartblock
  • The Small Print
  • Project 1: Public Landscapes
  • Project 2: Domestic Landscape
  • Project 3: Out of Place
  • Project 4 Intimate Landscapes
  • Project 5: Evidence
  • Project 6: A Picture of Health
  • Project 7: Blood and Shit
  • Project 8 How I feel
  • Project 9 Code
  • Project 10 Symbols
  • Project 11: Signs
  • Project 12: Imagined Landscapes
  • Project 13: The Face
  • Project 14: The Body
  • Project 15: Blueprint
  • Project 16: Moving
  • Project 17: Feet
  • Project 18: Craft
  • Project 19: Words
  • Project 20: Physical
  • Twelve Days in Summer
    • Day 1: July 24th 2014 Crisis
    • Looking back: June 9th and 18th 2014
    • Day 2: Distractions
    • Day 3: Realisations
    • Day 4: Transition
    • Day 5: Acceptance
    • Day 6: Saying goodbye
    • Day 7: Sorting dad out
    • Day 8: Part 1: Just me and mum
    • Day 8 Part 2: Saying goodbye
    • Day 8: Part 3: The summar BBQ without mum
    • Day 9: Mum struggles and then departs
    • Day 10 - Administration
    • Day 11: Ritual Farewell
    • Day 12: Residue
  • Getting On
  • Dad (2016)
  • Emergency
  • Heartblock
  • The Small Print