Putting The Family In The Picture

Family albums can read like biographies cataloguing a person's life narrative diacronically in a series of images. Similarly, one photograph and the brief moment which is captured, can, if we ask questions, contain all one's history synchronically. Who is standing next to whom? Who from the family is present or absent? A look, a smile or a frown, - these elements of a photograph can take us beyond the two dimensional image and draw us into the unconscious life of the family.…