Looking back in black and white to see more clearly – The Mail & Guardian

Looking back in black and white to see more clearly – The Mail & Guardian

Photo albums are a portal to another time — in which we might not even have been alive — and they allow us to find out more about people and spaces.  That’s how I got to know that my mother was more than just my mother. Before she was the woman who packed my lunch and reminded me to take a jersey, she was a young girl, a student, a dreamer. She had secrets and desires captured in the grain of 35mm film. She kept those rolls of film hidden in a c…