The picture tells you all you need to know. Easter 1967, St. Stephen’s, Tovil, England. I am 8 1/2 and Jesus in the passion play. It was snapped just prior to my crucifixion, which took place discretely off-stage. I peaked early, and it’s been all downhill from there. “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”

A few weeks later we came to Canada.

I already had my first real camera by then, a Coronet Twelve-20 bought for two-and-six at the church rummage sale. Not so much a camera as a biscuit tin with a lens, but I still have it.

When I last visited in 1994, the church was completely gone—its foundations overgrown with grass—but the graveyard was still intact.