In 1963 a seventeen-year-old homeless orphan from Leamington walked around the streets and old bomb sites of Coventry. She had just bought a 1933 Rolleicord with her first wages from an evening job as a waitress, was enrolled as a student at the Coventry College of Art, and spent every morning looking for subjects and every afternoon developing the films in the college darkroom. The negatives were stored in a box she carried with her when she left England in 1965; she never became the professional photographer she wanted to be but an artist, and rediscovered the box in her attic in Sweden at the age of eighty.