These images are the work in progress of my new collection ‘Pre’ Family Album. They are a response to my adoption documents. Each photograph’s title has been taken from statements written about me by officials dealing with the adoption case. It is titled ‘Pre’ Family album to illustrate the passage of time when I belonged to no family at all. The images are visuals that I have created to accompany the words heard in court as my adoption was read out and I was placed for the first time with my ‘family’. The prints are an exchange of thoughts and interpretation of my emotions as the officials were making decisions of my future. These decisions were made in court about me. I was not present. My birth parents were not present. My adoptive parents were not present. It was a hearing in court when a decision was made for me. My images are representations of the time I was given up by my natural mother to the time I was given my adoptive parents – When I became part of a family. The images were created as an emotional response to a court hearing.