London and Paris: Sifting Through Memories
We are transformed by travel. Our memories are transformed by travel. After returning home from a long and fulfilling trip, happy memories begin to fade and take on an atmosphere of their own. Our recollections shift and fade as time lengthens between travels. Days remembered from the trip begin to blur and merge with each other, and we create our own stories about our travels based on the evidence from past adventures.
My photographs in this portfolio explores the shifts in my memory when looking through photographs I took while traveling through London and Paris during late summer of 2014. As I sorted through and edited my photographs, I became aware of the shifts and blurs in my memory. Sometimes my memories are crisp and vivid; other times, they are soft and painterly. But they are always tinged with the nostalgia that arises from recalling happy memories.
I used various techniques in Photoshop to creatively express how I remembered walking through the streets of London and Paris with a group of close friends. I then printed my photographs onto inkjet film and transferred the images onto watercolor paper to create a painterly image that still maintains the integrity of the photographic image. I wanted to move from traditional travel photography and create a series of “photographic illustrations”, one that celebrates the memories and transformations created by venturing out to places far away from home.
We are transformed by travel. Our memories are transformed by travel. After returning home from a long and fulfilling trip, happy memories begin to fade and take on an atmosphere of their own. Our recollections shift and fade as time lengthens between travels. Days remembered from the trip begin to blur and merge with each other, and we create our own stories about our travels based on the evidence from past adventures.
My photographs in this portfolio explores the shifts in my memory when looking through photographs I took while traveling through London and Paris during late summer of 2014. As I sorted through and edited my photographs, I became aware of the shifts and blurs in my memory. Sometimes my memories are crisp and vivid; other times, they are soft and painterly. But they are always tinged with the nostalgia that arises from recalling happy memories.
I used various techniques in Photoshop to creatively express how I remembered walking through the streets of London and Paris with a group of close friends. I then printed my photographs onto inkjet film and transferred the images onto watercolor paper to create a painterly image that still maintains the integrity of the photographic image. I wanted to move from traditional travel photography and create a series of “photographic illustrations”, one that celebrates the memories and transformations created by venturing out to places far away from home.