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My birth mother's file, Porirua Hospital

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gelatin silver print 210 x 315 mm - John B Turner’s photograph My mother’s file, Porirua Hospital 1982 is very much like an in-absentia family portrait. The artist never met his mother and this was the closest he got to anything that she had a hand in making. He only saw photographs of her when he had become an adult and was never told by his a...

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