The images were part of a national campaign for the Mental Health Trust, to highlight the impact of mental illness on children. I was too young to remember these pictures being taken.
Looking at the pictures at home, I felt shocked and then uneasy. By now I had two young children, aged six and nine, and the pictures took on a very different meaning.
I wondered how long I had been left under the studio lights to get enough shots of me looking sufficiently distressed. Beyond that, I felt angry at the loss of trust I saw in the eyes of my toddler self.
So, although I assume he was in the studio with the photographer, he's not around to give me answers about why those moments were captured.
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