Confession. I’m going home to Australia for 3 weeks on Thursday. However, I will be participating online and continuing this blog.

It is my father’s 70th birthday and I have been making a film about his life from photographs. It will be screened (as a surprise) at his party in our local town hall. It’s going to be a big event with the back catalogue of our family life in attendence.

I am feeling very emotional about it. Trawling through old photographs, I have thinking about the trajectory of my father’s life and in turn the trajectories of my own. Cleaning up the scanned images where their life as treasured objects shows itself. Then deciding to leave the torn edges and stains in place.

In the computer I can zoom in on a facial detail on myself then do the same with my brother, father, mother and grandparents. I can compare and make connections, just as I can with the timelines of our lives.