The Hidden • Candida Baker

'What is the purpose of photography? To bring the dark into the light. To make the hidden seen.' A photographer prepares an exhibition of her early work for her London gallery. As she sorts through the faded prints of photographs taken in Australia more than 20 years before, she is forced to relive the story she has carried alone all these years, the story no-one else knows, not even her beloved son. Years before, on assignment in Australia, she had fallen in love and swiftly married. She and her husband had gone to stay at his property, set in rugged bushland outside the little town of Rock Forrest. There, amid the harsh, alien landscape and hostile township, she finds herself increasingly drawn towards the wildness and beauty of the bush as a way of escaping from the increasingly disturbing behaviour of her husband. Searching for reasons for his actions, she stumbles upon a truth so horrifying she can barely contemplate it. But by then she is a part of it, and cannot escape its consequences... 'I have come to believe during my life that all of us have one story to tell - many have more, of course - but we all have one. It is a shadow we are born with and it shapes our destinies. This was my shadow ...'.

• Format: Hardcover
• Published: 2000
• Edition: 1st Ed
• Pages: 185
• ISBN: 9781740510110