Photography has been an integral part of how I understand the visual world. Its ability to flatten subjective experience, demand truth and memorialize people, places, and things has made it one of the most pervasive modes of both art and communication. I believe it has also changed the way we see and thus remember. My family’s stories are often accompanied with or prompted by visual evidence.
These photos inherently have a nostalgic sense to them, yet they are meant as documents of indexicality. In my pieces, I sought to further investigate the mediums’ power to infer relationships through family photos. By reworking the old photos into new forms, I aimed to explore oral family stories, posing conventions, historical and spatial contexts, and the family photo album as convention.
