We have decided to place our Something Beautiful's on the first page of our first issue.
Below are the reasonings behind the images we selected but to see the images that accompany these...well you'll just have to buy the first copy :)
What's your Something Beautiful?
P - My mum was unexpectedly very ill while we I was away with her in Dubai last year. In 24 hours my world was turned upside down and I experienced a role reversal that I wasn’t ready for. I went to the hospital every day to see her but because I wasn’t allowed to stay there, I spent a lot of time back at the hotel on my own too. I walked along this beach collecting shells for her because I knew that’s what she would be doing if she were back with me. I took this picture as I walked one day and it will always remind me how precious life is and that the only things in life that really matter are family, friends and love. When she returned from hospital we walked this beach and collected shells together.
K - During my Art Foundation in 2008 i went on a study trip to Berlin and found the whole experience so overwhelming. Everything that went on in Germany (especially Berlin) during WWII was so terrible yet i couldn't help but think that so many beautiful things came out of such tragedy (controversial i know!) and i was truely touched. The photo that i selected as my Something Beautiful is a photo that i took at the Jewish Museum called 'Shalekhet', meaning Fallen Leaves by artist Menashe Kadishman. As much as this picture captures the emotion and atmosphere of the installation it doesn't allow you to grasp the scale of the feature. You walk in a to a plain, cold walk way (suitably entitled the Memory Void) with over 10,000 open mouthed faces coarsely cut from round, heavy iron plates lying on the ground which you are encouraged to walk over. As i said this might be somewhat controversial considering it represents the thousands of Jews that were murdered during such troubled times but it is something that touched me and has stayed with me ever since. I found it humbling, moving, painful yet ... Beautiful.
C - When I was 6 I didn't have a care in the world, I seemed to be constantly smiling and being an only child, I was the apple of my parents eye. My picture was taken in Rhodes, Greece at themed night put on at our hotel. At this moment I took being a family for granted and never once considered I wouldn't have both my parents together forever, I look back at this time of my life, and to me everything was perfect, I now wonder whether my Mom and dad had the same opinion. As I have grown up I have realised not many things last eternally and sometimes things end for the best. I look back and smile at how naive I was when I was a little girl, I will always enjoy reminising at this photo (and the others I have) and while I laugh and cry these were the happiest day of my life.
