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Fay Godwin

"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."

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"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."

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"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

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"I squinted at her. "You're an adult. "You're an adult too. "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice. Mom leaned back and laughed."

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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

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"A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world."

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Fay Godwin
"And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much."

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Fay Godwin
"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."

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Fay Godwin
"It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me."

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Fay Godwin
"I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me."

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Fay Godwin
"I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits."

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Fay Godwin
"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."

Imagination

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Fay Godwin
"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."

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Fay Godwin
"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed."

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Fay Godwin
"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."

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Fay Godwin
"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."

Nation

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