Some of these photographs almost did not survive. [PLACEHOLDER: a sentence or two about how the photos were kept: a shoebox, a phone, a hospital noticeboard.]
We were not thinking about a book when we took them. We were thinking about the ordinary things you photograph: a birthday, a first step, a quiet afternoon. It was only later that they became something else: proof, almost, that all of it really happened.
[PLACEHOLDER: a short, resonant line here, something the photographs remind you of.]
Looking at them now
[PLACEHOLDER: A paragraph about what it is like to look back at these images now. What you see in them that you could not see at the time.]
If one of these photographs stops you for a moment, that is exactly what we hoped for. Take your time with them. They were a long time in the making.