My name is Emma, I’ve been very kindly invited by Sunny to be a contributing writer on positivexposure, and I am really looking forward to…well, contributing in the future!

For many of us, all of the ‘important’ steps of our lives have been documented by proud parents, relatives and friends, all bearing cameras in their excited hands as we took our first steps, stood by the front door on our first day of school and on the stage at our graduation. A video, which hit YouTube in July entitled ‘The PEN Story’ does just this. It depicts, in stop motion format, fifty years in the life of a man in photographs, however, with an imaginative twist- it is a stop motion within a stop motion. We watch as the photos revealing the boy’s life travel in paths around a house- even floating up the stairs in a hot air balloon before parachuting back down to the floor.  Their journey mirrors those that he takes through the years of his life. As he travels through the frames, he grows up, marries, has a child- all in the space of a few minutes and hundreds, perhaps thousands of images. We see the world evolve around him as the years pass- from hippies in the sixties to a party celebrating the millennium. It is an impressive piece of film, and despite being made to market the latest Olympus Digital camera, is an incredible achievement which has captured the imaginations of over a million viewers.