January 2012
“Through photographs, each family constructs a portrait-chronicle of itself -a portable kit of images that bears witness to its connectedness. It hardly matters what activities are photographed so long as the photographs get taken and are cherished.”
Susan Sontag, In Plato’s Cave
“Because (in principle) things outlast us, they know more about us than we know about them: they carry the experiences they had with us inside them and are - in fact - the book of our history opened before us.”
W.G. Sebald, Unrecounted