Carla Kogelman's best photograph: children playing on a swing

‘They’re in their own world and don’t see me. It’s a nostalgic image, with a touch of magic from those disembodied feet and hands’

I took the picture in the summer of 2013, in a rural part of northern Austria. I grew up in Holland. I went back there in 2012 to try to recapture my own childhood, but the farm where I was born no longer existed and the people I knew as a child no longer lived there. And then I found my childhood – or what I wished it had been – here, in the Austrian countryside.

I was asked to do a documentary project about the Waldviertel region, which is how I came to meet these two local little girls, Hannah and Alena. Their mother, Sonja, asked if I would take some pictures of them.

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from Children | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2TVbCES