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.

In this piece of action research we both had the sense that we were creating an extension to our family album and we frequently referred to that archive in our ongoing conversations about our family, the home and the project. The piece aims to achieve a critical subversion of the photographer-subject relationship through the collaborative form of its enunciation. It is also an attempt at ‘memory work’ - seeking to undercut assumptions about the transparency or the authority of what is remembered, taking it not as ‘truth’ but as evidence of a particular sort: material for interpretation, to be interrogated, mined, for its meaning and its possibilities. The next stage in this project revolves around the making of an artists book which will both document and expand upon the ongoing work.

The series was exhibited at the Brighton Biennial Fringe Festival in 2008. In June 2009 it was part of the exhibition I curated to accompany the symposium Photography, Archive and Memory at Roehampton University London where it was accompanied by a paper I presented on the making of the piece as 'practice-with-theory'.