I have slowly and surely been taking extracts from Jake’s nan’s book and amazingly finding archival images to go with what she has written. She likes to tell a lot of stories and so I feel it has given her a lot of pleasure being able to see some of the exciting things she has told me next to visual elements.
My favourite is the image of the street party for the Queen’s coronation in 1953 when she was turning 10 that year. Especially as she ’found it rather boring and now says she didn’t realise how exciting it really was at the time. I am trying to have a mix of images as well as documents to pair with the quotes as I want to show the physical evidence of certain things, and even though photographs are physical evidence, they can often be very staged as well, we may not always be able to tell what someone is feeling through a photograph.
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