'A Portrait of my father as a young man'

Abstract

A portrait of my father as a young man is a composition of photos of a young(ish} man originally created by street and studio photographers, by friends and by family members at various times from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The original images are layered with past makings and meanings. They've been pasted into albums, kept in boxes and Kodak sleeves, copied,circulated, captioned, and reorganised. They chart rites of passage, the experience of distant places, critical events. My intervention is designed to free the images from past moorings as well as to expose them; to allow reflection on the multi-faceted, fluid nature of identity and the cultural, technical and personal determination of its representation in the everyday photographic portrait.