It takes just one photo to change a perspective. Images of bourgeois stuffiness are immediately shaken off when one is transported back to the moment.
The visions of deluded functionaries who thought their aspirations more desirable than those of others are blown away. We were simply being ourselves.
Who were we? Mere striplings caught in a time when many things were in a state of flux. There again, anyone could probably say the same thing in reflection.
Going out into the world, fellow human beings search for descriptive words when they meet us. An orchestral musician who recognises a particular sort of breeding asks ‘do you know so and so?’
And there you are, thousands of miles away from the original location, acknowledging a shared heritage.
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