Stranger: Memories
February 8, 2011 § 9 Comments
This project is a result of me producing images of other people’s memories that I have mined from the internet on various social media sites. These people have befriended me online but are not people I have met in person.
Each image is produced by a long exposure focussed on a computer screen while browsing a stranger’s social media images he or she has posted on their Flickr and Facebook accounts.
I have access to people’s memories, vacations and celebrations which I record in one single-image; a portrait of someone I do not know.
The resulting images are layers of images and time within someone’s life. This project investigates how we disseminate and share images in the public domain and makes us consider issues of representation and privacy.
This series also investigates what happens to people’s online memories when someone dies. What are the implications of us making all our information available online? Social media is currently popular but what happens if this ceases to be the case: what happens to our memories and who will have access to them?
Jamie House 
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An interesting selection of photos, I really like these pictures. They have many advantages and are endowed with profound meaning. Thanks to the author for what he put those pictures on the Internet and wrote as they were made. It’s really interesting and important for me to get at least remotely similar to these photos.
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thick with texture, color, and meaning. i want to reach in these and feel around. i wonder the same things about social media daily. awesome series!
Excellent concept and an interesting and engaging series of images that I shall try to see offline!
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Fantastic idea and result. I cannot help but think of the last episode of Black Mirror called ‘The Entire History of You’, have you seen it? Definitely worth watching if you haven’t!
Currently in the final year of my photography degree, I am looking at similar ideas of social networking for my final project. I am also following the immersive and addictive strength of such websites (and the internet as a whole), and the links between social media and memory, as well as a theory that the internet is shortening our ability to remember information.
Considering that your series ‘Stranger: Memories’ has a similar approach to my own work, I hope you don’t mind that this will feature in my research package.
Looking forward to seeing more of your work,
Katrina
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