Charlotte Copley
‘For all the crisp realism they seem to offer, photographs have a funny way of playing tricks with memory’. – Emily Sohn
Photography achieves the impossible by freezing time in its tracks and allowing captured moments to be immortalised; it then becomes possible for us to revisit these moments whenever we choose. Without images, how clearly would these experiences be remembered? Would we remember them differently?
Predominantly working with my personal family photos I question how informative photography truly is of our past. Using the camera as a tool of distortion, I photograph existing images from my childhood and reprint them, repeating this process until the picture becomes unrecognisable. Photos that once presented coherent memories transform into the indistinguishable.
Photography achieves the impossible by freezing time in its tracks and allowing captured moments to be immortalised; it then becomes possible for us to revisit these moments whenever we choose. Without images, how clearly would these experiences be remembered? Would we remember them differently?
Predominantly working with my personal family photos I question how informative photography truly is of our past. Using the camera as a tool of distortion, I photograph existing images from my childhood and reprint them, repeating this process until the picture becomes unrecognisable. Photos that once presented coherent memories transform into the indistinguishable.