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I recently acquired a projector and was able to finally view a collection of slides I had been given which were taken by my late Uncle during climbing expeditions in the 70's and 80's.
My Uncle was a strange and unfamiliar enigma to me. He was much older than my mother and we saw him quite infrequently when he made a trip to visit the family from his home in Cheshire. I know that walking and climbing was his passion and we believe he climbed all over the world including Austria and Nepal. I have heard stories about him being air lifted off a ledge after falling and breaking his shoulder but I don't remember talking to him about his travels being so young at the time. In my older years, my Uncle had become unwell due to debilitating epilepsy which had affected him since his youth and so conversations remained limited. As a child I don't think I felt any connection to my Uncle but as an adult I feel the pull of family connection and a great desire to know my history. I knew that I wanted to create something using the images he had taken. To view the places he had travelled to through his eyes, the paths he had walked and to discover whether he had a particular talent for photography that I might have inherited was exciting and thought provoking. It was quite mysterious and haunting to see the photographs projected onto the walls of my studio. There were no images of my uncle at all, which I guess was to be expected; just incredible views - it was like looking out through his eyes onto beautiful landscapes I had never seen before. I wanted to connect with this somehow and become part of this history. Here are my images:
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