This wonderful book is a moving photographic record and memoir of a mother daughter relationship in the light of an enduring disability from birth through adolescence. Her daughter, Ophir has Down Syndrome. "Up Close" is a remarkable work - meditative, unflinching, searingly honest and loving - a portrait of humanity at its most touching and challenging.

Fiona Yaron-Field has been a professional portrait photographer and Art Psychotherapist for over fifteen years. Her work has primarily focused on 'the family'. She has worked in various community based projects teaching photography and facilitating groups of children and adults with both mental and physical disabilities. Fiona has exhibited her photographic and most recently 'Shifting Perspectives' was shown at OXO Gallery London after touring in the UK. She lives in North London, UK with her husband and two daughters, Ophir and Noa. She continues to photograph them as part of an ongoing project. "Up Close" is her first book.