Research • Dear Photograph

I researched Dear Photograph for my Directions Within Photographic Communication brief where I looked at old photographs of my family and friend and created a chain of loved ones. I love the concept of using old images to relate to the modern day and how things have changed.

All the photographs that have been chosen for the Dear Photograph website have a meaning behind them by the person who sent them in for submission. The first photograph was taken by a man called Peter who wrote "It was 70 years ago when my mother dipped her toes in Lake Cavloc, Switzerland alongside her father and sister. Beauty was all around them and so were the echoes of youth. My mother's view has changed now that she lived in a nursing home. Wouldn't it have been something if the waters they had danced in had washed the fountain of youth over them.". This photograph has meaning to him because it signifies his mothers youth and how she used to live. Now that she is old, it's just a distant memory.

The bottom photograph was sent by an anonymous submitter, but follows the unique story of his parents after they met on a bus and fell in love in Guatemala 37 years ago. I love the connection of the photograph because of the mountains, but the man seems dislodged from the images because he is standing in thin air, where a structure used to be. 

http://dearphotograph.com/