Earlier this week, we featured an amazing photographer from the UK – Whispering Willow. She has sent over a great session that we’d like to feature and it has a very special meaning behind it. Check out these awesome photos and what Sarah has to say about them:
“I have so much respect for people who lived through World War II…one of them being my mother. She has kindly shared her experiences (some painfully) so my children can get a glimpse of her life when she was a child. I thought of capturing images of my mums grandchildren stepping back in time…just for a moment…to get a little feel of her childhood. Of course, they could not possibly understand the horrors their grandmother had experienced.
It is hard to understand that my mum was 9 years old when the war started, the same age as my son is in these photographs. My mum was not evacuated, however I set the scene at a train station with my boys as evacuees. There was not another soul on the platform…unlike the real thing when it would of been crowded with children saying goodbye to their mothers…some forever.
As I wrote out their tags, carefully putting their names on, I got a horrible feeling of dread…what would it have been like for those mothers sending their children to the country for safety. What a heart-breaking decision to make…and even more heart-breaking being at the train station knowing you may not see them for a long time…I can’t possibly imagine.”
