I began this semester thinking of other ways apart from just a photograph, that I can anchor down certain memories of people and experiences that I don’t want to be forgotten.
These feelings of keeping everything anchored down and secure was triggered by the act of my Nan throwing away old black and white family photos. She no longer valued these and as her life was nearly over, she didn’t want to dwell on the past. I had to intervene because I couldn’t let my ‘past’ be thrown away. These photographs were of family members, and held memories for me that I wanted to remember and secure these memories. I no that change is inevitable, but I want to create pieces of work that can help slow down this process.
An obvious choice was to use photographs to remember a moment or experience. A photograph produces a trace of the moment, so I took portrait style black and white photographs of my friends and family. Each person in the photograph is looking directly at the camera so as to engage with the viewer.
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