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SHOOTING THE PAST

Examining the photography archive, the family album, historical processes and more.....

Alien

August 16, 2020

Aged just 20 my mother and her friend Gloria arrived in the UK from Germany on 3rd March 1947…..

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In Family Album, Family Photographs Tags family album, family archive, family history, family, mother, refugees, displaced persons, European Volunteer Worker, postwar Britain, 1940s, alien certificate of registration, identity, identity papers, Latvian, Balt Cygnet, nurse, hospital

A Lost World

July 29, 2020

My mother told me few stories of her life growing up in Latvia……

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Tags identity, Latvian, Latvia, family album, family archive, family history, family, grandmother, mother, 1930s, 1940s, World War II, soviet invasion

Divorce

July 27, 2020

After my grandparents separated my grandmother left the theatre never to return…..

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In Family Album, Family Photographs Tags identity, Latvia, Latvian, grandmother, grandfather, mother, 1930s, divorce, family album, family history, family archive, family, studio photography

Family Life

July 18, 2020

There are just a handful of photographs to record my mother’s early years in Latvia…..

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In Family Album, Family Photographs Tags identity, Latvia, Latvian, European, mother, grandmother, grandfather, divorce certificate, family, family album, family history, family archive, studio photography, studio portrait, 1930s, Evalds Valters

Young Love

July 15, 2020

Some time during her stint at the Liepaja Theatre my grandmother Mirdza met and fell in love with a young actor - Evalds Valters……

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In Family Photographs, Family Album Tags grandfather, family, family album, family archive, family history, identity, actor, Liepaja Theatre, Evalds Valters, Latvia, Latvian, 1920s

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Alien
Aug 16, 2020
Alien
Aug 16, 2020

Aged just 20 my mother and her friend Gloria arrived in the UK from Germany on 3rd March 1947…..

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Aug 16, 2020
The Flight from Latvia
Aug 8, 2020
The Flight from Latvia
Aug 8, 2020

By the autumn of 1944 the Red Army was pushing south and rather than face life under a second Soviet occupation my Latvian family decided to join the many thousands of their compatriots and flee the country……

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Aug 8, 2020
Leaving Riga
Aug 7, 2020
Leaving Riga
Aug 7, 2020

In early 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Latvia my grandmother, step-grandfather and mother left Riga to go and live in Tervete, a village south west of Riga…..

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Aug 7, 2020
Occupation
Aug 6, 2020
Occupation
Aug 6, 2020

In June 1941 Latvia was invaded by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Barbarossa - code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union…..

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Aug 6, 2020
A Second Chance
Jul 31, 2020
A Second Chance
Jul 31, 2020

After my grandmother’s divorce she met Arturs Abeltins, a young man eight years younger than her….

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Jul 31, 2020
A Lost World
Jul 29, 2020
A Lost World
Jul 29, 2020

My mother told me few stories of her life growing up in Latvia……

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Jul 29, 2020
Divorce
Jul 27, 2020
Divorce
Jul 27, 2020

After my grandparents separated my grandmother left the theatre never to return…..

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Jul 27, 2020
Family Life
Jul 18, 2020
Family Life
Jul 18, 2020

There are just a handful of photographs to record my mother’s early years in Latvia…..

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Jul 18, 2020
Young Love
Jul 15, 2020
Young Love
Jul 15, 2020

Some time during her stint at the Liepaja Theatre my grandmother Mirdza met and fell in love with a young actor - Evalds Valters……

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Jul 15, 2020
Treading the Boards
Jul 14, 2020
Treading the Boards
Jul 14, 2020

As a child I remember very little talk about my grandmother’s younger years in Latvia…….

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Jul 14, 2020
A Question of Identity
Jul 10, 2020
A Question of Identity
Jul 10, 2020

In the aftermath of Brexit I have found myself re-examining my European roots even more closely…..

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Jul 10, 2020
A Handful of Photographs
Dec 13, 2018
A Handful of Photographs
Dec 13, 2018

Orphaned at the early age of eight, my Latvian grandmother was then brought up by an aunt…….

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Dec 13, 2018
The Maternal Line
Nov 27, 2018
The Maternal Line
Nov 27, 2018

It seems that acting runs in the blood in my family as both my great grandparents and grandparents were actors on the stage in Latvia…..

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Nov 27, 2018
To Remember Me By (2)
Nov 19, 2018
To Remember Me By (2)
Nov 19, 2018

Some more recently discovered photographs from my mother’s Latvian archive have come to light……

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Nov 19, 2018
Keeping in Touch
Oct 27, 2018
Keeping in Touch
Oct 27, 2018

Fleeing for her life along with thousands of others in the face of the Soviet invasion, my mother left Latvia towards the end of World War 2 in the autumn of 1944….

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Oct 27, 2018
Exile
Sep 28, 2018
Exile
Sep 28, 2018

A story as old as time itself and sadly still happening all over the world….

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Sep 28, 2018
Piecing Together the Past
Sep 17, 2018
Piecing Together the Past
Sep 17, 2018

Family history can be unreliable and nebulous especially in troubled times…..

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Sep 17, 2018
Every Picture Tells a Story
Sep 9, 2018
Every Picture Tells a Story
Sep 9, 2018

Every picture tells a story but how to decipher it?……

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Sep 9, 2018
Suspended in Time
Sep 3, 2018
Suspended in Time
Sep 3, 2018

In my mother’s box of Latvian photographs are a handful of images which I return to again and again…..

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Sep 3, 2018
To Remember Me By.....
Aug 28, 2018
To Remember Me By.....
Aug 28, 2018

On a recent visit to my father's house, I rediscovered a box of old photos belonging to my late mother…..

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Aug 28, 2018

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