Dad, Pete, Opa
21.10.2014    Morning of Bronchoscopy
21.10.2014    After bronchoscopy 
26.10.2014    Peter, Lizzie and Frankie
30.10.2014    Day of formal diagnosis of lung cancer
31.10.2014
01.11.2014
04.11.2014
20.11.2014
23.11.2014
29.11.2014
06.12.2014
27.12.2014
21.01.2015
21.01.2015
23.01.2015
30.01.2015
02.02.2015    Lizzie’s birthday
07.02.2015
 25.02.2015
28.02.2015
03.03.2015
06.03.2015
13.03.2015
21.03.2015
16.03.2015 
18.03.2015
19.03.2015
21.03.2015    Nurse Maude Hospice    Last photograph of Dad, Pete, Opa before his passing, 6:35pm, 24.03.2015.


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Dad, Pete, Opa
Published and sold internationally by XYZ Books, Lisboa, Portugal
Distributed in Aotearoa New Zealand by Rim Books and Bad News Books


“I have been admitted to hospital. Please don’t worry, but call me when you can. Lots of love, D,P,O.”

It was always how he signed off; shorthand for Dad, Pete, Opa. Tim J. Veling would soon learn his father had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer with an estimated three months to live. The rug was suddenly pulled out from under his feet.

Dad, Pete, Opa is a record of those last, precious months. The photographs are testament to not only the grief that father and son worked through together, but more importantly the love and admiration they shared; an account of the inevitable slowing of one life set to a backdrop of a new life and relationships thriving. Intensely moving in its unflinching intimacy and honesty, D,P,O reminds us that while death comes to us all, we must live in the present and treasure deeply the company of people we hold dear. For within those that remain, love and life endure.

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Design: Joana Durães
Prepress: Pedro Guimarães
Production: Tiago Casanova and Pedro Guimarães
Printing: Gráfica Maiadouro

Published 2022
XYZ Books
144 pages
21,5 x 26 cm
Offset Print
First edition
ISBN: 978-989-53182-8-5

Institutional Partners:
República Portuguesa
DGArtes (Direção-Geral das Artes)
Creative New Zealand
University of Canterbury