The Parents series started in 1980 when I moved to London. I felt alienated and, perhaps, memories of the isolation I had felt when I was younger began to surface. On the few occasions I went back to Hull, I borrowed a Hasselblad from the photographer I assisted. I felt comfortable with the camera’s square format, perhaps harking back to my Dad’s box Brownie. I now felt the work with my parents was becoming a serious project. The early pictures were looking at my relationship with my parents and their relationship with each other, often expressed in a humorous way. Many of the images involved enactments of a memory or fantasy, interwoven with past events, domestic rituals, and the encroachment of old age.