The Spectre
Photography
March 2018
Mentor: Abhijit Pal
Spectre
(n): An apparition
The ghost that haunted her mother, unintentionally, haunted her too.
Spectre is an on-going work that focuses on my mother, my grandmother and me. It explores the intimacy, distance and tensions between the generations of women in my family, and how our histories and memories are entangled and connected to one another.
(n): An apparition
The ghost that haunted her mother, unintentionally, haunted her too.
Spectre is an on-going work that focuses on my mother, my grandmother and me. It explores the intimacy, distance and tensions between the generations of women in my family, and how our histories and memories are entangled and connected to one another.
My
work investigates the role of a daughter and the seasonal nature of life. After
the demise of my grandmother, my mother was raised without the love and
affection of a mother, which she bestows upon me. Raised in a cornucopia of
love and protection I had to move away from my mother during my adolescent
years. After a few of years of separation, I felt an urgency to
investigate my ancestral roots through images to develop a better understanding
of what it means to be a daughter.
What started out as an effort to document and archive ancestral legacy soon translated to an exploration of the themes of family, history and relationships.
What started out as an effort to document and archive ancestral legacy soon translated to an exploration of the themes of family, history and relationships.