Personal and family photographs figure importantly in cultural memory, photographs offer a particularly productive route to understanding the social and cultural uses of memory.   This project sets out, to develop and examine personal memory and and the changing landscape,using personal and family photographes as a method for investigating the use of ordinary photography and how these may provoke production of memories true or false.

I asked people to find an old photograph that held memories for them, then to take the photograph back to the place it was taken and take the photograph again while holding the original photograph up to include it within  to the new photograph, not to worry if the landscape has changed maybe the building isn’t there any more or it’s now a housing estate just try to place the photograph roughly in the place they think it was taken, they may be able to see other landmarks like trees etc. to help them. Once they had done this I asked them to write a short post of their memories and where and when the original photograph was taken, below are some examples.

This Project is ongoing if anyone would like to send me their photo and story….

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

Ansel Adams

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

Susan Sontag