Lost Faces

Lost Faces is a search for timely images, a project reminiscing the importance of a photograph. This project is both a visual research of personal family roots and a search for lost photographs where strangers have become orphaned through images.

The advancement of digital photography has made it easy to capture hundreds if not thousands of personal moments and simply store them on the computer. Our consuming lifestyles often make us act in a sort of digital excessiveness. In contrast with photographs of the past where a single photograph used to be an event with respected importance, the digital age is slowly causing us to forget about our ancestors’ old photographs. Each comes with a story when passed on to the next generations, the ancestors live on keeping a memory, a legacy and a lifetime, vibrant and tangible allowing us to better understand our ancestral roots.

Acknowledgment:

Conseils des arts et lettres du Quebec