"No longer her(e)", Helen Rimell’s stirring visual storytelling project about her mother (and family’s) experience with Alzheimer’s Dementia, has won this year’s Bob and Diane Fund grant. The title itself evokes a sense of loss; her mother’s loss of capacity and all that entails, and the artist’s loss of the woman her mother once was. Deeply intimate moments captured of her mother at home reveal the heart-breaking reality of living with dementia, both as the person living with it and as the carers and family members. Helen left her former life to move home, along with her family, to become her mother’s carer in 2021. One photo shows a tender moment caught as her young daughter helps her grandmother to eat and another of the pair on the sofa, eyes fixed upon one another, reminding the viewer of the humanity behind the disease. This is the 8th year that the Bob and Diane Fund had offered this grant, with the aim of increasing awareness and support for Alzheimer’s and dementia through visual storytelling of the lives of people living with dementia. You can view "No Longer Her(e)" by Helen Rimell here:
