Temporal Photography | Nostalgism
A reimagining of travel and photography; of places unfamiliar and memories therein
The immediacy of social media and photographic technology disassociates intent and meaning in the simplicity of travel photography; captured experiences published in real time and forgotten again, lost in the waves of interaction on the loud expressive shores of social impressions and obsessive layout aesthetics. Images that aren’t representative of memory but rather have become memory in a singular form—nostalgic sensationalism. Removing the immediacy, or rather the implicit contradiction of memory in the now, and instead honing in on remembrance and the then is the purpose of this ongoing project.
A visual narrative in the three parts—persona locum res; person, place and thing.
By framing in threes, attention is brought back to social media’s contradictive iconography; story after story, we are presented with person, place and thing as an experience had—here they are an experience shared. Social media scrolls backward through a timeline—here each piece pushes forward, into the future past.
These unaltered 35mm photographs are curated with the narrative intent of meditative exploration. Breathe in, imagine yourself there, feel freedom within each frame, be pulled to the next and, most importantly, seek to explore memory, not be controlled by it.
Leave the camera behind.
