Mark Seymour ; A portrait of Ronnie

Author: Neale James | Duration: 8:52min

There are 850,000 people in the UK with dementia. Nearly a quarter of a million people will develop the condition in the next year. It’s one of the main causes of disability in later life, yet still there is no cure for what many people consider an ‘unfashionable disease.’ In 2011 professional photographer Mark Seymour started to document his father Ronnie’s battle with the disease. This film shows a little of that body of work; A Portrait of Ronnie