“Through photographs, each family constructs a portrait-chronicle of itself-a portable kit of images that bears to witness its connectedness”

— Susan Sontag —

“All photographs are momento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. ”

— Susan Sontag —

Inspired by the writings of Susan Sontag on Photography, as well as the concrete poetry of Jenny Holtzer I created this series of 19 photo boxes which I gave as gifts to my classmates.

Created to protect the memories of those who you hold dear; these photo boxes also expose the the dark underbelly of photography and the participation in nostalgia.

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