Issy

They say an image is worth a thousand words but anyone who has saved a computer file knows you can squeeze a decent novella into the space needed to save a grainy photo of your Aunty Nelly on a deckchair. It is the detail that is so expensive in terms of bits and bytes, but sometimes you can strip all the detail away and still have an image that rich in eloquence. I must have taken this photograph in the 1970s. I have no idea where it was taken, time has erased any geotag that ever existed, but I have no doubt who the subject of the photograph is. The slightest hint of a shape, the smallest clue of a stance – my wife of over half a century – Issy.