infoThe Time of Her Life by Lesley McIntyre
Saturday 9 September to Saturday 28 October 2006
My daughter Molly was born at St Thomas' Hospital in London on 19 October 1984. Within the first few days of her life I was told that it was highly unlikely that she would survive more than a few weeks... In spite of this I did take her home and she lived until 8 February 1999.
In all of this time Molly's condition was never properly diagnosed. Before her birth I assumed that I would be able to combine my career as a photographer with being a parent. I did chieve this but not in the manner I had anticipated… I found myself grounded in our domestic life, the demands of such a fragile child being very particular.
But I did not stop taking photographs. Lesley McIntyre created an extraordinary work, as personal as it is universal. Beautiful and moving, the photographs capture and draw on Molly's own vitality. It is a portrait of a whole life virtually from birth until death. I bore witness to her life in the most intimate way. These photographs are the evidence. They resonate not just as a confrontation with the realities of illness and disability, but as an intense examination of what life itself can be.
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