This series of photographs represents the first stage of an exploration of my childhood and my mother's current home. I began this project in collaboration with my mother in 2008 following her need to move to more manageable accommodation.

The project arose from qualitative action research based upon the strategies of collaborative memory work within the family. It aims to suggest that the photograph, and indeed the practice of photography, can be positively understood as the site for the production and representation of memory, one which is future oriented and active in the construction of identity and agency.

The series was exhibited at the Brighton Photo Biennial Fringe Festival in 2008. In June 2009 it was part of the exhibition which accompanied the symposium Photography, Archive and Memory at Roehampton University London.

An article on the production and theoretical implications of the piece was published in the September 2010 edition of Photographies
- link to article (takes you away from this site).