Rosemary Elizabeth Healey Waterhouse-Hayward - Mexico City 1969

 

When I don’t have much to do (almost every day) I like to fiddle in my oficina with negatives and my scanner. Today I went through files Family 1968-1975.That is the period between my marrying Rosemary in Mexico City on February 8, 1968 until we were about to leave for Vancouver.

I had never ever printed these four b+w negatives. I suddenly had the idea of cutting them from their strip and laying them on my scanner. I think that the results are a refreshing change with my usual placement in my blogs of individual portraits of Rosemary looking devastatingly beautiful.

As I go through my files I have become aware that I shot a lot film of the family. I have every birthday cake photo, etc. But these for me are special. I had never ever printed them in my darkroom. To see them now is to see them with that former excitement to go to my darkroom to find out what I had taken.

And as I often repeat here this is a Borgesian first time. Looking at these four exposures, Rosemary is looking at my camera, or not as I prepare to press the shutter.