My dad meticulously documented my childhood, and I grew up flipping through our family photo albums. I felt drawn to that nostalgic view through the lens too- small pieces of the whole picture. My parents were married for seven years before having children, and nearly twenty before their divorce. Before I was born, my dad photographed their Alaskan camping adventures. I like to look at the mountains, the photos painstakingly posed with a tripod and timer. I like to imagine they were happy.

This series explores the complexities of family relationships, and the role photography plays in shaping memory— its reliability, its distortions, and the way it lives as both object and image. My photographs reimagine family photos and keepsakes; combining, layering, and re-photographing them to suggest the haunts of family history.

Photographing a photograph produces a new memory- something familiar yet altered. Every photo in the series is created using the same Nikon 8008s camera my dad used to take many of the original photos depicted. In black and white, the objects and the image become part of the same visual language— married together in monochrome.

The images invite the viewer into a private, shifting interior space— a kind of visual diary. Both memories and photographs are unreliable.

Most are real, some are imagined, all are true.