Tell me everything you don’t remember

2013
Black and white analogue print

[ezcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]In this work I study human memory through black and white photographs of people and urban surroundings. My intention was to find the connection between the surroundings and character’s presence at present, mirroring the past self. I am pondering on an idea of our identity being equivalent to our memories.

Forgetting is an important part of remembering. Nevertheless, our memory is working every second – sleep and awake. Even consciously forgotten events stay stored in our emotions.

By going through important events in our minds, we give them a meaning. And the more we think over the memory, the more it changes.

Memory develops in the early childhood, but by the time we lose parts of it. The events we remember build our autobiographical memory. They shape our identities and make us who we are, and how we see ourselves. In traumatic memory we store moments that we have forgotten. These unconscious scars can cause fear, anxiety, shame and anger. We may not know the reasons behind our feelings or lack of them, but our memories do. Our beliefs, ecstasies, depressions, cravings, dreams, addictions, and behaviors, are all affected by our experiences and memories of them.

Even the photographs themselves are memories of past events. I wonder how the moment captured exists after I have released the button. Is there else than the present moment?[/ezcol_1half_end]