My essay Developing Us: Photography, Family, and Feeling provides a personal reflection that moves beyond dominant family narratives to connect directly with my father’s photographs and Super 8 films.

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Louise Taylor ‘delves into the nuanced ways that photographs keep and disclose secrets, compelling the viewer to look deeper. Taylor takes us on a moving journey through her father’s photographic archive – colour slides and black-and-white negatives and cine film – bringing to light sharp and fuzzy memories, and trying to make sense of his emotional struggles, and eventual suicide. Taylor meditates on the photographs, particularly those images that capture them together in time, searching for the nature of their relationship in the past. She asks us to consider the relation between photography and memory, and how we rely on photography – albeit partial and perspectival – to capture and transmute emotions in the wake of loss.’ Katie Barclay, Tanya Evans, Joanne Begiato, Laura King, Ashley Barnwell.

Accompanying this project are selections from my father’s extensive photographic archive, which reveal his perspective and our subtle collaboration.