Faded Memories
Time passes; the moment goes even as the shutter clicks and memory forms to be remembered. Memory is marked by a vogue for the collective and the materialization of history in decentralized forms as it can be appealed in order to recover the past. Photographs can highlight the complex nature of retelling the past. Through the use of photographs, the past can possibly be revealed in more accessible forms as memory and photographs both involve the process of recording archive that may be used to recall the past. Photographs and its archives are structured by remembrance and forgetting. And it becomes open to new interpretations, identity and history.
This series draws upon family photographs with ethnographical techniques to try and explore the construction of faded memories that shaped in visual space with the help of photographs depicting family lives, relationship, belongings, culture, gender, social class variables, marriage, separation, birth or death of family members. It’s a journey to see a newer world that may be clearer and richer to understand own individual identities and the families we are part of or close to. Each photograph is comprised of multiple photographic image to naturalize, romanticize and idealize family relationships above all others.
