Exploring grief with photography
Abstract
On 16th January 2011 Joshua Amos Harris Edmonds was tragically killed in a road traffic accident in vietnam. Josh was 22, and three months into a once-in-a-lifetime journey that would have taken him across the whole of South East Asia. In the four years since his death, Josh's family have continued to remember their son in a number of exciting and innovative ways many of which involve photography. As a filmmaker and a psychological therapist, his parents Jimmy Edmonds and Jane Harris have used their combined disciplines to explore both artistic and therapeutic responses to the grief they now experience. In this article Jane and Jimmy introduce just some of the projects they have been involved with since Josh's death.
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