Child Photography After my last 'safari' into the Amazon in l990 I decided the time had come to set aside my cameras. I was sixty years old and this kind of photographic adventure was getting a bit too much for me. So I set aside my cameras and became a potter. Then one day I picked up my cameras again and focused my lens on my grandson Agostino. I realised then that all I needed to do was to adapt my photography to my white hair. The results were so spectacular they recalled the images of my own young family I had captured in my youth. When my daughter Marina died of Cancer at the age of 36 the pictures I took of her as she was growing up are all I now have left of her. They keep me company and my memories alive. I quietly slipped into child photography, 'capturing the moments you never want to forget, before they are gone for ever.' A challenge that keeps me hopping and the joy I give parents and grandparents when they see their children immortalised in print, gives me as much satisfaction as any of my wildest youthful photoshoots across the far reaches of the world. For photographic enquiries contact photography@MirellaRicciardi.com *Click images to enlarge*