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No Memory is Ever Alone is a visual conversation between me and my dad. He used to bring out a box of slides that he photographed in his late teens and early 20s every Christmas and made us view them on an old projector on our living room wall telling the same stories every year. It was a consistent memory from a childhood where we moved a lot and I never felt like I had a steady “place” to live and create memories. I realized that by placing the slides in my current landscape, I created not only a connection between his life and mine, but a trail of memories, each that had its own association for both of us. A lot of these slides are of my mom, they were together almost 60 years. She passed away recently and I feel like her spirit, and all the spirits of the past, are around us. These little vignettes of family life in my current “space” comforts me that she and others are still near, watching over me. They create a “home” for me wherever I go.I did not want to Photoshop that connection. Part of the process that was necessary for me was to find the right location and feel my dad’s slides united with how I live today – a place within a place, a memory within a memory.
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Carlos Gamez de Francisco
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Fine Art Photography - Portrait
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United States
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Patty Carroll
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Fine Art Photography - Fine Art / Other
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United States
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Henrique Murta
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Nature Photography - Landscapes
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Brazil
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Antonio Denti
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Special Category - Covid-19 Related Photography
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Italy