This work explores the idea of breaking the traditions of a “family portrait”. Taking the singular portrait as a departure point, I began to piece together a whole lifetime of photographic stills, reproducing them as prints to be presented en masse, as a new experience of physically rendered portraiture.

    Initially I collected my family portraits, scanning in excess of 3000 negatives to create the beginnings of my archive, which was the source of my imagery. My intention was to reprint my own family portrait using the very images produced along my family’s collective life span. I edited the images by involving family members, asking which photos were most nostalgic and evocative.

    Fusing historical printmaking techniques with contemporary digital imaging, I have