Encapsulating memory

Abstract

The photographs in “Immigrant” are not conformant to conventional photographic aesthetics. Together with the objects displayed, they partake to another life and are the outcome of the interruption of the (stationary) present in order to evidence a (lost) past. These pieces are, in actuality, matter rescued from ‘the scene of the crime’. My responsibility was to photograph and hence provide testimonial material – a ‘scribe’ called onto this assignment to record without giving comment… a common day-to-day function in forensic investigation. Catch it quickly… no visual composition… just proof...