FAMILY AFFAIR

The installation “Family Affair” includes familiar family snapshots evoking feelings of sentiment and nostalgia while retaining anonymity and untouchability through their transparency and pixelization. Modern society is losing the intimacy of treasuring and sharing tangible memories in the form of photographic prints. In sharing physical family photo albums, strong connections between image and narrative are formed. Stories from generations before us are passed down and remembered through the photographs which represent them. Computerized files now substitute physical archives, buried and misplaced amongst thousands of other images in the digital void. This modern and sterile approach creates fragility between our connection to personal identity and family history – and so, through progression, we regress.