Paul Hamon, Mother’s Day portrait, May 1979

Smiling young boy in a zip-up jacket, outdoor portrait, Adelaide area, Mother’s Day May 1979. Digitally colourised and restored version. — Close-up outdoor portrait of Paul Hamon taken on Mother’s Day in May 1979. He smiles widely, showing missing front teeth, and wears a dark zip-up jacket with white stripes over a checked shirt. A hand rests on his shoulder. His mother Desrae kept this photograph and later selected it from the family collection. Photograph by Howard Hamon. The original is a black-and-white print; the restored version has been colourised, cleaned and upscaled with generative AI while preserving the original expression.

Smiling young boy in a zip-up jacket, outdoor portrait, Adelaide area, Mother’s Day May 1979. Original black-and-white print. — Close-up outdoor portrait of Paul Hamon taken on Mother’s Day in May 1979. He smiles widely, showing missing front teeth, and wears a dark zip-up jacket with white stripes over a checked shirt. A hand rests on his shoulder. His mother Desrae kept this photograph and later selected it from the family collection. Photograph by Howard Hamon. The original is a black-and-white print; the restored version has been colourised, cleaned and upscaled with generative AI while preserving the original expression.

Subjects: Paul Hamon
Event: Mother’s Day portrait
Photographer: Howard Hamon
Restoration notes: Colourisation, cleaning and upscaling performed with generative AI. Composition and expression preserved from original black-and-white print.
Credit: Photograph by Howard Hamon. Author’s collection.
Keywords: Paul Hamon 1979, Mother’s Day, portrait, Adelaide, Howard Hamon photographer, 1970s