The Mother's memories

The Mother, as a young girl.



Here are the four photos that I have chosen to represent the Mother's memories on the four projection screens. They show four significant moments throughout the course of her life, the first photograph from the 1920s, depicting a young girl in a garden, being the sort of photograph that I imagine to be like the one Barthes talks at length about in his book, Camera Lucida. After Barthe's mother died, he came across a photograph of her in what he calls the "winter garden", taken before he was alive. It is this photograph that seems to have prompted him to write Camera Lucida, provoking thoughts about loss, memory, the past, and whether the camera captures the truth.