After The Fire: Water Damaged

• Photographer
  Lynne Breitfeller
• Prize
  Silver in Analog / Film / Fine Art

This series explores photographs as memory, examining the shape-shifting potential of images that have been damaged or lost. After a fire above my studio, water damage impacted a third of my archive. Much was discarded, some kept. During the pandemic, I rediscovered the kept artifacts. Water on emulsion transformed their compositions and morphed the remains into new forms and meanings shaped by happenstance. The memory of what was had shifted into something different. Our experience of remembering the past can change each time it is revisited, it is elastic.