This photobook consists of an exploration of my Parisian mother’s home district (the 15th arrondissement). These are also the streets I walked when I was in Paris for an unanticipated week in 1967, aged 15. I spent a week wandering the streets, visiting galleries, observing, and absorbing the city. This project explores identity, history, memory, and urban geography. The fragility of memory is thrown into relief by my mother’s struggles with dementia in the later years of her life. This slippage of personal and familial memory greatly informed this search for the intangible.
I'm a photographer and lecturer from Bristol UK. I mainly concentrate on personal projects, based on reading and research, such as 'Searching for your Shadow' which is my entry for BIFA.
