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…