The image to the right features on the cover of one of Martin’s books about evacuation, I’ll Take That One Too (2013). The book places the British ‘Operation Pied Piper’ in the context of other plans to evacuate children across Europe, notably in Germany and Finland. The image was created by his wife and daughters, and features eldest daughter Kimiko alongside three of Martin’s grandchildren.

 

Some suitable clothes and hats were acquired for these young ‘actors’, and a makeshift gas mask box was constructed from an old cardboard box and using string. Jo then photographed the costumed group of figures in front of glass doors in order to catch them in silhouette. She layered this image onto a photograph of a sunrise that she had taken some time previously.

 

Jo is an avid photographer always on the lookout for promising dawns and dusks, rising very early if necessary and walking out with her camera. This particular sunrise was captured on the wide-open fields of the Englefield estate not far from her home where, in a related photograph taken on the same morning, she captured some wild deer in silhouette, emerging from the mist. Jo experimented with the hue for the book cover sunrise, and injected a warmer tone.

 

The completed picture was delivered to the publisher within twenty-four hours and was approved without further editing.