Conversation Between Father and Son

Conversation between a dad and son is a project that engaged with my family archives.

When reviewing photographs from my childhood, I discovered the uniqueness and

expressiveness of images taken by my father. Then I started to imagine the non-existent

conversation between my father and me about the topic of photography. Although my father and

I had numerous opportunities to see each other over the years as I got older, we never had a

conversation about photography. Through research and conversations with my mother, I found a

lot of similarities between how we had both adopted photography as an approach to observing

and representing reality. With that similar experience with photography, I started this

hypothetical conversation with my father by pairing our images together in my personal living

space. The approach in interpreting and imagining this conversation includes performance and

material manipulation. The project ended as I observed that my father took fewer and fewer

images of me as I grew up. The melting ice in the last image of the series symbolizes the

relationship between archives and memory. It opens an imaginative space and conversation for

the audience.