THE FAMILY ARCHIVE

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Writer Celia Lury has written that the camera has allowed for portraits to be used as an alternative of remembrance; the portrait therefore allows a “relation to consciousness, memory and embodiment of an individual” (Lury, 1997, pp.41-42).

My project studies the family archive by exploring Lury’s notion of ‘portraits as an alternative of remembrance’ investigated through my own family archive and how the images and items found are associated with remembrance, and kept as a form of furnished evidence of what or who was once there.