So last week I left you with a teaser and as promised I have retrieved the scans and uploaded them to Flickr

The entire set can be viewed here but I have chosen my favourites from the film.

This is one of my favourite films so far. To be given a film containing photographs of Christmas-time is amazing for me because I’m such a Christmas fanatic! When I first saw these photographs I thought they were from the early-mid 1990s, but I’ve attempted to date them using the Liverpool football shirt the little boy is wearing and I think they were shot around 2003 (please correct me if you know otherwise). Still, that’s about 7 years. I’m still surprised at how many people have photographs of important family events (such as Christmas) sitting undeveloped in drawers and cupboards. I think perhaps the rise of digital photography has made film seem a slow and unwieldy medium on which to capture these moments. Which I think is a shame overall but it’s great for a project like this one. I think I’ll have to discuss further the decline in popularity of film and what it means for this project in another post. Anyway, here are my picks from the film:



For me, this photograph embodies childhood memories of Christmas: mountains of presents, huge gifts dwarfing the little boy who is the centre of attention without really knowing it. It really evokes the excitement of Christmas for a child.



There are several photographs like this one, capturing an intimate moment between what I’m going to assume is a father and his excitable son. As a series they give the impression of being candid moments, as if they aren’t aware of the camera at all.



This picture seems to have been taken from the child’s point of view, unlike the others in the series. Although he’s smiling, the adult looms over the child and seems almost sinister, albeit unintentionally.


Discussion and feedback on these images or any others is welcome in the comments!

I’ll be posting another artist inspiration post tomorrow morning so keep an eye out for that!