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Photographer Mom Documents Her Kids’ Childhood Without Electronic Devices

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Photographer Mom Documents Her Kids’ Childhood Without Electronic Devices



“I photograph as  physical record of their childhood, life as it is…”


Niki Boon began taking photos as a hobby while she was working as a physiotherapist in Scotland. However, the New Zealand native found her interest in the art waning while she travelled, and it wasn’t until she had returned home and started raising a family that her passion was rekindled. “Childhood in the Raw,” an ongoing photo series of her four children’s technology-free life on her 10-acre property in New Zealand, is the perennial fruit of this passion. Boon makes a gift of the photos to each child on his or her birthday.
“My mother died when I was young, and now I have just a couple of small albums of faded but highly treasured six-by-four photos to tell my childhood stories,” Boon explained to National Geographic. “It is my passion to record as much as I can of my children’s day-to-day lives, as well as their adventures, in the most meaningful pictures I can take … their stories, our stories, and a piece of me. They’re for them to enjoy and relive for years to come.”

“My children are unschooled and live without TV or modern electronic devices”
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This is a “lifestyle that may seem unconventional to some”

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“But I am here to celebrate the magical place I choose to live with my family”

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“I document their days, together, in an environment full of nature and uninhibited play”


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“the real…”

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“but also as a reflection of a childhood rooted deep in my own past”

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“…a most sincere place of freedom”

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“A childhood I now pass on to my own children”

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“Although deeply personal I believe that others will also connect to some aspect of their own childhood…”

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“I believe my children are right where they belong covered in mud”

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“running and living through nature”

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“They belong here wild and free”

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“where the landscape begins and their little souls end”

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