Punjab is the birthplace of Kandhola's family. He has visited the region as part of a continuing project to map family history through an odyssey of ancestral narratives, exploring memory, diaspora and identity. For him it is a land which is unfamiliar, yet it provides both a context and a beginning. Here, he writes about Punjab and his family.

With texts by Mark Sealy, Garry Hesse and Anne McNeil. In our unpredictable world there is one certainty upon which we can always rely; yet death, when it comes, is never easy. In this body of work, Max Handhola photographed his father in the final stages of cancer, taking serenely abstract images of blood, urine, hair, and ultimately even ash, which form a counterpoint to the haunting final photographs made at his father's bedside, including the moments just before and after death. An intensely personal, honest and moving narrative.