My Great Aunt Joyce lives in a small Yorkshire village. Her home is adorned with paintings, books, newspapers and postcards from away lands. The incense burning on the coffee table lights the conversation in the room.

Joyce Hurt is a retired school teacher. She is 84 and has spent many of those years living and teaching abroad.

I recently asked Joyce if she took any photographs during her travels. She handed me a shoe box packed with 35mm Kodachrome slide.

The images were carefully organised and covered every major world continent - North America, South America, Europe, Russia, Asia and Australia.

The full list includes:

• The States, Bermuda. July, 1963.
• Russia.
• Australia. May, 1966.
• Bangkok, Malaysia.
• Hong Kong. July, 1967.
• Guatemala.
• Portugal. May, 1968.
• Luxemburg, Holland. May 1968.
• Angkor Wat.
• British Honduras.
• Teotihuacan, Sculp Ruies. Sep 1967.
• Mexico City, Chapultepec. Sep 1967.
• Portugal. March, 1968.
• Japan. Jul, 1967.
• Colombia, Medellin. Jun, 1963.
• Cheung Chau. 1966.

The travelogue covers a five-year period from 1963 through to 1968 and I am aiming to digitise all the images contained in the shoebox. Thereafter I expect to talk through the images with Joyce and record her emotions, stories and interactions with those very images. There is also the potential for a book and an exhibition.

On first review there are stunning pictures in the collection - landscapes, portraits and documentary work. It is Travel Before Travel. A time before airbus 380's and global tourism.

The images are marked with a sense of peace and serentiy, capturing the cultures and communities as they once were - without outside interference.

To test their quality I have selected three images to be entered into a Gallery Opening to be hosted at UClan's Victoria Building (Preston, UK) on Tuesday December 6th. All welcome!

I will continue posting throughout the life of this project. Simply follow the tag 'travel before travel'.