Remembrance Series // New York

Projects

Memory 1

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 2

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 3

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 4

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 5

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 6

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 7

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 8

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 9

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 10

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 11

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 12

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 13

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 13

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 14

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Memory 15

Archival Pigment Print
50” x 40”

Remembrance Series // New York

When my parents split up, my mother decided she wanted to move our family – my two siblings and me – from Gaeta, Italy, where I was raised back to America, where she grew up. So she packed up all of our belongings and we boarded a TWA flight to New York. Somehow, the luggage with all of our family photos got lost in the journey.

In the years since, I've reflected on what that loss meant for me and have attempted to write down as many recollections as I could. That became the basis of this photo series, where I had my family and friends reenact some key scenes from those memories. I used a large format camera and photographed each scene with multiple exposures, then stitched it back together digitally in a tableau style.

Undertaking this project revealed to me the idiosyncrasies of how our memories form and get solidified, through storytelling and image-making. With each recreation, I discovered a new gap between fact and fiction, an odd rhyming quality between what-must’ve-happened and what-might’ve-happened.