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Roots (Series)
DESCRIPTION
This is a story of generational trauma. I began this series trying to find a way of telling my story of the generations before and wondering about the generations after. After seeing what I had done, my friend wanted to tell her and her maternal family's story of generational trauma. So, this is her story going generations back. She and her family are from a rural area of West Virginia. The grandmother she knew and loved married too young. In trying to escape a father that was abusive she married a man who was also abusive. Alcohol played a large role in this. Still she provided a home and raised the children they had together. Tara knew her, loved her, talked to her and learned from her. The scenes and makeup are representative of the stories she has heard. The balloon represents childhood dreams lost. the mirror represents s search for identity. Because of the cancer gene that took the life of her grandmother and mother, Tara has decided not to have children. So, what was in the past will not carry forward to the future. Perhaps the memories stop with Tara. But, that doesn't erase the past.
AUTHOR
In my lifetime I have been daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, empty nester, great grandmother, widow and partner. Never in those years did I take photographs (except for family memories). 7 years ago my partner gave me a camera and I began learning how
to tell the stories that have rattled around in my mind for years..
I have had my work displayed at the Mediterranean House of Photography in
Barcelona and twice in Paris. (State of the World and Der Greif) . Also I have been published in the
Fotonostrum magazine and the recently published Der Greif Magazine Issue 16. Also I have been so
very honored and pleased to have been an Official Selection in the 2023 London Creative, 2 Bronze
awards in the Rise Awards, Overall Non Professional winner in the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 3rd place and honorable mention in Monochrome Awards, Bronze and Silver in Budapest Awards 2022, short listed Siena Creative 23 and 23, Merit Award in the Fotonostrum Portrait Awards, honorable mentions in the IPA Awards, Silver award in Children in the Pollux Awards, Curators Selection in the State of the World Px3 Awards 2022, short listed State of the World 2023.
to tell the stories that have rattled around in my mind for years..
I have had my work displayed at the Mediterranean House of Photography in
Barcelona and twice in Paris. (State of the World and Der Greif) . Also I have been published in the
Fotonostrum magazine and the recently published Der Greif Magazine Issue 16. Also I have been so
very honored and pleased to have been an Official Selection in the 2023 London Creative, 2 Bronze
awards in the Rise Awards, Overall Non Professional winner in the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 3rd place and honorable mention in Monochrome Awards, Bronze and Silver in Budapest Awards 2022, short listed Siena Creative 23 and 23, Merit Award in the Fotonostrum Portrait Awards, honorable mentions in the IPA Awards, Silver award in Children in the Pollux Awards, Curators Selection in the State of the World Px3 Awards 2022, short listed State of the World 2023.
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