Un/Taken ep. 4 Ben Osborne

A new Un/Taken. Want to read what you don't get to see?

This topic is about the photo you did not take. If you haven’t seen the previous episodes, read those stories here.

For this episode I’ve asked the East Sussex based photographer Ben Osborne about his photos, taken and untaken.

Here we go.

Untaken

Which photo was untaken and why did you not take it?

I take photos most days and I usually have a camera on me, however, for years I was terrible at taking photos of my family. After a family gathering or a day trip somewhere nice, my wife often asked me if I had taken any good photos of the kids... and the answer was nearly always "I didn't actually take any of them" which annoyed her a lot. Instead I'd have a dozen images of a tree I liked, or of weeds growing up through a bare patch of concrete. But none of the kids. I still took the odd photo of them with my phone, or occasionally they would sneak into the frame by accident, but I rarely intended to inc…