Family Affairs is an installation comprising 3 distinct parts. Dear Mom - a group of found family photographs and a correspondence, Family Affairs - a series of 16 photographs of my two children, and Shooting Back – a pair of photographs they took of me. Together, they become a conversation about family affairs, love affairs, deep loss and longing. And, this is layered with another conversation – about photography; the power and ‘deceptiveness’ of family photographs and how they mediate our experience of ourselves in the world.

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There's a wonderful text that Richard Avedon wrote in the late 80's, for the literary journal Grand Street, called Borrowed Dogs where he talks about his own family photograph albums. He says that his family took great care with their snapshots. They planned compositions. They dressed up. They posed in front of expensive cars, and homes that weren't theirs. They borrowed dogs. He recounts how in one year of family photographs he counted eleven different dogs. His family never in fact owned a dog. He talks about the fact that in his family albums “all the photographs revealed a lie about who the Avedons really were, but a truth about who they really wanted to be”. This paradox has always interested me.