Anastasia Park
When Anastasia was twenty, her mother was declared unfit to raise Anastasia’s five year old half-sister, Jacinta. Anastasia did what most twenty year olds would never even contemplate doing - she volunteered to raise Jacinta as her own, to give her the love and the security that she herself missed as a child. Taking on the responsibility of raising a child when she herself was little more than a teenager was a daunting task, and the road was rocky, but now Jacinta is taking her HSC exams and planning on entering university next year. She will be the first in her family to attend university. Anastasia’s hard work battling homework, the legal system and bureaucratic red tape has paid off - in the form of lovely, well-adjusted young woman, Jacinta.
Photographer: Diane Macdonald
Location: Sydney