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BY BETH MT.
In the olden days, when you still developed your camera film after a holiday, I would eagerly pick up the photos from the chemist, only to be disappointed when I realised that the photos were mostly of everyone else, and you would hardly have known that I had been there! This was because I had taken most of the photographs! I wanted to make sure that everybody else’s holiday was documented, yet I didn't think it was important that I was in the photographs. And I was also so self- conscious that I was always a tad relieved that I was invisible.
As I got older, I began to avoid photographs for a very different reason. I did not like how I looked. I was too fat, I was too thin, I was too old, my hair was bad etc etc. I was always the person that offered to take the photograph. I think that this is an issue for a lot of women. We lose confidence and we are happy to step back and let other people take the limelight. But by doing this we are we are cutting ourselves out of our family history and we are giving the impression that we are not important.
As a sober woman it’s even more important to me that I am seen.
HOLA SOBER MAY-JUNE 2022
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