What the photograph remembers
Days of future past is a quiet study of time, memory, and identity. Each portrait features a person holding a black and white photograph of themselves as a child. That single gesture – an older hand holding a youthful moment – is a visual metaphor for change, resilience, and the inevitable evolution of self.
This series is about presence. A visual dialogue between then and now. Between what’s changed and what hasn’t. What stands out isn’t just the photo. It’s the relationship to it.
Medium, texture, tone, and the physical presence of time sit side by side. Analog meets digital. Black-and-white meets colour. Far becomes close.
I was in a photo studio as a child, and this photo is proof of that. I have no memory of that day, but the photo shows a child with a serious, focussed look - that's me, even today. Friends who only got to know me as an adult say they didn't recognise me and can't associate the picture with me. My life has evolved, and so have I. How wonderful.