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RC: Do you remember where it is?

TH: Yes erm…I don’t actually know the name of it but I know the bus stop. I cant remember where we would have been, maybe Mcgovern House? Erm…and I was just…yeah me and Sandra were just getting the bus home. And as she usually did – taking me up, taking some pictures as we were waiting…and I was just messing about. As a kid does.

RC: What was it like being a model for Sandra?

TH: Erm…sometimes she had to nag me to be involved but you got used to it. Grew up with the kitchen being a dark room as often as not. Erm so yeah, anytime she had a film that had shots left on their, she’d use them on me or on the odd self portrait. So even amongst these folders there are pictures of me alongside project work. Yeah there’s just so many. But it’s…it is weird looking back, like some of these, looking at them and going “oh I remember that!” but, until you see the picture you don’t recall these things or really think about them as much. That’s one of the most powerful things I think when it comes to photography, its not…it’s a means of finding a memory. And it helps you remember these things, you might, might always forget. And it is one of those…it is one of the things I certainly say when it comes to, whenever you’ve got important stuff, but certainly more so when you’ve got kids – take lots of pictures. Right up until the point when they hate it. Keep taking pictures, because kids change so much…erm…I mean adults do from time to time but children especially just going, in the first few years, in the first few years you want to remember all these moments. And kids themselves are not going to remember you know the early years especially, so…taking pictures lets you show the things they physically cant remember or experience. And, the whole point, or a certain part of being a parent, and a grandparent, is to share, share that experience.  And its a perspective I’ve grow up with you know living with a photographer, growing up with a mother who was an artist, and a photographer. And certainly now looking back at the collection and you think oh my god, there’s decades of history tied up, not just memories, historical events and activities that have in some way shaped hundreds if not thousands of people. If not just the people who attended the projects that Sandra worked at, but you’ve certainly got their families and loved ones will have benefitted in some way from the perspectives that Sandra shared with them. Or even not even just perspectives but like certain opportunities. Not just from Sandra’s perspectives but an outlook that a lot of community work benefits from is the fact that you’re doing something that will open doorways to activities and perspectives that a lot of adults and children would not garner from being involved in just their normal day to day lives, being able to go to these projects, see different things, have some of their ideals challenged, to open their eyes to other ways of thinking can sometimes change lives for the better. Yeah, open the doors to education or other jobs, it all stems back to what Sandra found meaningful. In the hardest points in her life she strived to promote education and promote doing hobby style activities to encourage people to evolve.

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