My favourite family photo: ‘My mother stares dreamily into the distance, looking like an extra from Mad Men’
<p>I found solace in looking through my father’s slides after he died. They made me gasp – and my childhood turned from monotonous monochrome to glorious Technicolor</p><p>When my sister handed me a box of old Kodachrome slides last summer, I almost didn’t bother looking through them. Unusually for pre-smartphone times, my camera-crazy father had extensively documented our lives, filling dozens of photo albums. What could the transparencies possibly reveal that we hadn’t already seen countless times? I dimly remembered him ambushing us to watch slideshows, until we were old enough to rebel.</p><p>My father died in 2012. Not long before, I had developed an interest in photography myself and, after he was gone, I found solace in my viewfinder. It was, and still is, a way of feeling connected to him. What prompted me to set up my iPad as a makeshift lightbox to view the slides was technical interest.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/08/my-favourite-family-photo-my-mother-stares-dreamily-into-the-distance-looking-like-an-extra-from-mad-men">Continue reading...</a>
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