Memory of a place

Film images on inkjet archival prints

There are many places that I associate with people and my relationship to them. The house I grew up in, a park I visit often with a loved one, a road I drive down often to clear my head. There are some places I can no longer go to because the people that I connect with those places are no longer in my life. When it comes to capturing these places a simple landscape picture is not enough to adequately convey the sentimentality of the place. For this project I revisited places that are sentimental to me. I shot all these on film using a multi exposure process. Some I shot with a plastic camera I always have with me. Others I was more formal about and I used a twin reflex camera. I shot these places not as they are but how I remember them. The colors of a sunset and the feel of grass. The ripples of a lake with cool stones beneath. Some are places that are long gone and my memories of them are faded. These long gone places sometimes give me an overwhelming sense of homesickness when I remember them. This project has in many ways been a way to cope with these feelings, a form of catharsis for me. I hope that you will see these images and be reminded of places and people that are important to you. The ones you have lost and the ones you are still lucky enough to have.