2025

Perception of Memories

This project explores how photography shapes our memory of people. We think we remember them as they were, but in reality, we recall their captured images. The less we see someone, the more their real face fades from our memory, replaced by photographs.

The project presents two types of images. The first consists of portraits of my loved ones. Their faces appear blurry in the photographs because I interact with them often, and my memory holds many real moments with them. Photographs haven’t yet replaced my actual perception of them.

The second type includes archival photographs of my family in their youth. Their faces are clear because it is only through photography that I can see them that way. Over time, I noticed that these images began to replace my real memories of them. I started to feel as if I remembered my family members as young, even though I could never have seen them that way.