Ray, where have you been today?

Pietro Fanti

About this exposition

Is the reality perceived by someone with dementia less real than our own? Can photography give authority to this alternate reality? This research, sparked by my newfound relationship with my dementia-affected grandfather Raymond, investigates the family album - often perceived as an unquestionable document - in order to uncover its ambiguities and to question photography in itself as the most trustful record of reality. The inaccuracy of a medium that aims for objectiveness and is perceived as the bearer of truth, leads me to focus on three different ways of approaching the family archive (collection, editing and manipulation) and the relationship between mortality and memory. By using a mix of photography and photogrammetry, Ray's distorted memories - as he recounted them during his illness - became new images in order to materialise his present parallel truth. Alongside this dreamlike everyday, what has survived of Ray's past is contained in a briefcase: 254 photographs that have been transformed into postcards, travelling keepsakes, ready to be sent. If photography is in itself unreliable, why should the reality of a person who has lost his memory be any less real than our own?

type	research exposition
keywords	PHOTOGRAPHY, post-photography, photogrammetry, family archives, memory loss, family album, illness, dementia, alzheimers, family
date	27/03/2025
published	14/07/2025
last modified	14/07/2025
status	published
share status	private
copyright	Pietro Fanti
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3786447/3786448/1148
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3786447
published in	Research Catalogue
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