Would Your Past Come Back To You In Your Photos?

Mark Seymour is a very special photographer, not just for his documentary style wedding photography nor because of his passion for delivering chiaroscuro style photos lit with strong contrast between light and dark, but because he took a very personal photographic interest in his own father's passage through Dementia.

Ronnie Seymour looking through photos – Help me remember.

To celebrate Ronnie Seymour's life and to share his own insights of his Dad's illness, Mark has joined up with the Alzheimer's Society, Harmonica Legend Paul Lamb, Singer FiL Straughan and Printers Loxely Colour to host an exhibition called 'A Harmonica for Ronnie' in the Andipa Gallery, London and Stuart Fawcett (Jackalltog) went along for ePz to hear and see more.

Paul Lamb and FiL Straughan providing the entertainment.

Dementia is a something that affects a new person in London every 23 mins and currently, there are 72,000 people living with Dementia in London, a disease that, as of yet, there is no known cure for. It takes your whole life's memories and shakes them around and eventually it starts erasing your more recent memories and working back, just leaving you with your older memories. These backwards steps can have a dramatic impact on the family as well as the person who's suffering from the disease and can also, perhaps, explain why some people we come across behave quite out of step with the modern world.

© Mark Seymour

The exhibition is on until Saturday, 8 October in London SW3, at the Andipa gallery which also has Andy Warhol images on display. If you want to know more about Dementia or Alzheimer’s or even become a dementia friend, visit the Alzheimer’s society website. You should also check out Mark Seymour's website.