Rachel Graves | Photography

Fragments

(2008)

Fragments is a meditation on the peculiar relationship between family photographs and memory; the role we expect these photographs to fulfil and the trust we place in them to preserve the intimate moments of our lives for future reference.

In the production of Fragments I work directly with my family's archive of photographs - every single image including home videos and slides, rephotographing and revisiting each one until it is so far removed from the reality of the moment it once depicted it has become an entirely separate entity.