Remembered

This series of photographic images are large-scale color narratives. These staged photographs recall childhood perceptions and dramas from an adult view with adults as the actors. These playful yet eerie images offer an insight into phobias and anxieties of my childhood. The childhood memories that I am recreating were important elements that helped to shape my identity.

The inspiration for this series came from a previous body of work, where I interviewed adults who recalled stories from their past. In several cases, I interviewed entire families who had descriptions of specific events dramatically different from each other. This began my personal process of revisiting my own childhood memories and recalling what I remembered as truths and what could have been ‘learned’ through family photographs. Memories inspired by fights with my younger brother, birthday disasters and tea parties are subjects that are explored often using the same childhood friends as models.