Anonymous

• In picking up old photographs and glass slides at car boot sales, I’ve often looked at the pictures and wondered who that person was and what their life was like with its joys and tragedies.

• I’ve sometimes noticed that looking at them can conjure up complex feelings of curiosity, sadness, and a certain nostalgic yearning, as if you are looking at photos of your own ancestors.

• This is a series of images where I’ve tried to pick out individuals from a crowd and isolate them visually by using a large aperture. I’ve then processed the images by blending them with background dirt and scratches from old slides in order to give them an aged and textured look to try to recreate the emotions associated with original old photographs.