During the many months of David Pace's chemotherapy and radiation, Diane Jonte-Pace turned to a long-postponed project: arranging the unlabelled and unsorted prints stored in shoeboxes throughout the house that she and her husband had made during the five decades of their relationship. Organising prints and slides dating from the early nineteen-seventies, when the couple first met, provided an occasion to reflect on a shared past and to grieve the losses they expected.

The result weaves a story of ageing and change, of love and hope. Technically it incorporates most of the forms available over those five decades: single-lens reflex cameras, Brownie Hawkeyes, Polaroids and single-use throwaway cameras, professional bodies, and more recently telephones. The story belongs not only to the two of them: it provides a window onto the past for an entire generation.