Migration is on my mind these days, as the plight of migrants in Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean confronts us daily in the news, putting into perspective the first world problems that we tend to grumble about. The transience of identity as people flee persecution and poverty contrasts harshly in the photos below with the fluidity of persona achievable in the digital age.
My work process with clients often includes harvesting images from their own archives as well. I recognize that their photographs contain important visual legacies, journals of their experiences that I could never hope to capture in a single static portrait. Archival photos can be salvaged and ‘rehabilitated’. They can be integrated into content for especially engaging interactions online, or as components of bespoke personal art pieces commissioned by families and others.
This 5 Amazing Photos series itself appropriates photos from the continuous glut of images that confront us, re-interprets them through my own filter and puts them along with my thoughts into the world as new content.