Emily Jones- BA (Hons) Photography
Like Someone Else's Memory
Like Someone Else’s Memory is a body of work using sourced family archives to explore how meaning shifts when personal photographs are removed from their original context. The project stems from the artist’s longstanding interest in the family archive and questions the ease with which such intimate material can be given away. It considers what happens when images are separated from their original authorship and re-embedded within new narratives. Through the process of cropping, the artist isolates fragments of the body, gestures and recurring motifs. These interventions disrupt individual identitywhile preserving anonymity, repositioning the images within a more collective experience. The viewer is invited to encounter the work as familiar yet difficult to place, as though they could belong to anyone’s family archive. In doing so, the project explores the shift from private memory to public. The processes of cropping and sequencing are central to the work, echoing the nature of memory as partial, reconstructed and unfixed.
