“Letters from childhood” (2009)

film photography / 42 works, 60*60 cm

The series Letters from Childhood began as an attempt to return to my own memories. Over time, I noticed that my memory of childhood was becoming increasingly blurred: it preserves fragments and brief sensations that cannot be fully reconstructed. Gradually, the project shifted from personal recollection to an observation of how memory emerges and disappears in everyday life. By turning to my daughter’s childhood, I am not so much documenting a family history as creating a fragile archive of presence — of traces, gestures, states, and places that may also become indistinct over time. The series was shot on medium-format film. Blurring, grain, and double exposures appear at the moment of shooting and become part of the image. For me, these technical elements are connected to the very nature of memory: it does not record the past literally, but reconstructs it through losses, overlays, and gaps. Letters from Childhood is a project about memory as a living and unstable archive. It is about how one’s personal past and the childhood of another person come together in an attempt to preserve fragile traces of life while they are still visible.