Other People’s Memories is an ongoing project that centers on the preservation and restoration of donated and forgotten film. For the past seven years I have been collecting, digitizing, and restoring film from thrift stores, flea markets, and antique shops. These photographs offer a glimpse into the intimate, everyday moments of others, moments that feel both foreign and familiar. I am drawn to the beauty and mystery of these discarded memories deemed not good enough to keep in the family photo album. By restoring these images, I am not only repairing the physical material, but reconnecting with a past that belongs to someone else. The photographs become vessels, carrying with them stories that I will never know and the weight of everything that surrounds them, the hands that held the camera, places and people long gone. These fleeting moments are now forever caught in stillness behind silver halide crystals—children stuck at the age of three, a never ending dentist visit, or a Christmas morning that goes on and on and on.
