AustLit

'Our family photo albums, for the first years, are meticulous. Negatives and later, files loaded onto a USB, have been taken to the local Kodak store, printed, chronologically ordered and patiently manoeuvred under plastic sleeves. Back when that was a reasonable use of a Sunday afternoon. Birthday photos - grinning in various stages of the orthodontic process, cake being shoved in our faces by a hand, the rest of the parent or grandparent off camera - give a sense of time passing to the series, gentle indicators slipped in as if to say, 'oh look, another year gone by'.' (Publication abstract)