2001 - Present

What Remains

In 2001, I began a series of photographs and interviews at the home of my grandparents. Over the last 21 years I have collected stories of their childhoods, immigration during World War II, his career as a brick layer and amateur paleontologist, her experience as a homemaker and cleaner, and their ideas about parenthood.

The photographs capture their spaces within their home, and their childhood homes in Hungary and Maine. Since their deaths, I have documented their home as it remained untouched, and the ongoing distribution of their estate. The archive moves from portraits and vignettes of rooms they individually occupied, through small still lives of items positioned and left behind, to near empty spaces of shadows, grit and decay. The collection stands as an evolving memory of life lived, and the legacy that we are left to carry.