Malawi - Blantyre - Young uncle and nephew in 1970s portrait

A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.

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Image Size: 3520x5353 / 5.1MB; seventies 1970s 70s Africa Malawi nostalgia family bygone era age dated retro retrospective childhood youthful youth young growing up development innocence innocent age of innocence genealogy family tree next of kin demographics personal relatives snapshot family album amateur once upon a time decades population baby boom years period morality past olden days personal history yesteryear changing world film Kodak Kodachrome transparency Box Brownie portrait magenta 10 year-old yard Blantyre expat expatriate awkward dust heat and dust windmill broken intense bright confidence posture heights holding hands cast happy grinning unsure embarrassed shorts sandals classic technology outdoors outside overexposed mid-tones colour shift
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A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.