FINDING JUNE
2008 – 2018
In September 2010, I visited Camden for the first time. That day, I bought five photographs that remained in my backpack for weeks until one day, glancing at the images, I realised that two of those five photos belonged to the same family; that’s when my search began.
It took me a year to gather photographs where the same girl always appeared, with the same name written on the back: JUNE.
For 8 years, I’ve been dedicated to finding her. The dates and names on the back of the photographs marked the story of her life, a life that began in 1930.
After traveling to some of the locations from the pictures to document the story, the local newspaper in Scarborough contacted me and published the story with the title “Does Anyone Know June?” Thanks to that publication, a lady from a village called Yaxley contacted me, and after 8 years of searching, I found myself in Yaxley, at a crossroads in front of the grave of Eunice June Lomax, born in 1930 and died the same year her photographs ended up in my backpack.
Along with her story, Sally gave me a bag of photographs of June in her adult stage, closing the photographic life of June.
The motivations to find June led me to investigate my own life; all the photographs I had of June with her parents ended at the age when mine passed away; finding June allowed me to imagine both her story and mine.
TONY LORENZO 