Harry had by no means swum with out armbands earlier than. It was August 2021 and the three-year-old was on vacation together with his mother and father, grandparents, sister and aunt, the photographer Hannah Cassidy. It had been the second arduous yr of pandemic restrictions and time caught at house for the toddler, so he and his sister Rose, six, have been thrilled to reach in southern Spain. The prolonged household had rented a villa in Murcia and from day one the children gravitated in direction of the pool. Rose had taken swimming classes earlier than, however Harry had not.
“Just a few days in, we switched his armbands for a float that strapped to his again,” Cassidy says. “He was standing on the aspect whereas we have been within the pool, cheering him on, encouraging him to leap in and attempt to swim in direction of us. The outstretched arms you possibly can see belong to Rose. They’re actually shut.”
Whereas Cassidy would by no means take her skilled digicam into water, she remembered that her Google Pixel 5 was water-proof, and was impressed by the standard of picture it produced. She later transformed it to black and white, drawn to the best way the solar bounced off the ground tiles. “I additionally felt that it gave it a timeless high quality; we might be in any nation, in any yr.
“It was such a pleasant surroundings for him to study in, to have this necessary expertise, and I needed to doc it,” Cassidy provides. “I really like how his sister’s arms are ready to catch him: he seems to be like an astronaut in house.”
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