We
fashion ourselves within an ever-changing social context. Photography
also fashions images and memories.
Three generations gather for an official wedding photograph, for the
portrait that celebrates and confirms connection and continuity. I capture
an informal moment, as the family observes the bride adjusting her gown
for the professional's camera. The first of the next generation is expected
at the time of writing this - another step in the process of (re)fashioning
personal and communal identities.
The multiple generations depicted here are poignant to me... my own
family line ruptured by the Holocaust of World War II. Haunted by loss,
without grandparents or great grandparents, we re-fashion ourselves
to a new world.