Unwilling Collaborator
2025 - ongoing
2025 - ongoing
Unwilling Collaborator is a collaboration with my one-year-old daughter exploring how the families we create are haunted by the families we come from. At a time of increased photo sharing on social media and powerful online facial recognition technology, my project also reflects on the overlapping imagery represented by faces, masks and screens.
Like many new parents, I am interested in – and fearful about – how my own childhood experience will shape my relationship with my daughter. This photo series, both as process and in the resulting images, is intended to provoke thinking about boundaries, storytelling, honesty and control. As well as exploring a mother/daughter relationship, the photographs stage the issue of how a parent chooses to frame and document their child.
