The House in the Photographs
The photographer, a woman in Delray Beach whose name I do not have permission to use, sent back the deposit and also sent, by post, the full set of files from September, unedited, with a note that said she would keep no copy and that the negatives — she used that word, though there are no negatives — were Giselle’s to do what she liked with.
Giselle has not deleted them.
She told me that in a car park in Jacksonville about a year and a half after, and I asked her why, and she thought about it for a long time.
And she said: “Because my mother’s in them.
“And because I looked lovely.
And I did not do anything wrong that day.