This portrait series will explore and celebrate older residents from a single North Yorkshire village. Over the next thirty years, the number of older people worldwide is going to more than double; population aging is set to become one of the most significant social changes of the twenty-first century, affecting nearly all sectors of society (United Nations). Older women's contributions to political, civil, economic, social and cultural life remain largely invisible and disregarded, limited by gender disadvantages accumulated through the course of life (United Nations). This photographic series will focus on the longest-term residents of a small, rural community, taken in their village homes. The portraits will represent an often forgotten group, and also honour each individual and their life story. With Arts Council DYCP funding, the series will evolve to include further portraits and still lifes of chosen memorabilia.



Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton

“a space…to have a moment of importance in front of a camera” Vanessa Winship