Zoe Everett-Taylor

︎ @zophoto_

︎ up895978@myport.ac.uk

Notions of trauma and memory are applied to the continuing visits I take to my father's home and witnessing his addiction, through the medium of therapeutic archival photography. Each photograph represents either an emotion, object or resemblance to my past with the sense of reflection and gratitude. Moving through my father's home and finding objects that represent the memory of my mother is a personal archive journey in itself. And by placing myself and my father in these settings I've allowed the viewer to feel into the uncomfortable setting that exposes obvious trauma.

Using large scale prints, the viewer will begin to apply the feelings of sentiment to trauma, as a dualistic relationship. Whilst the series depicts the Daughter's Gaze and past memory, it becomes an ongoing project that can always be documented, and never fully refined. Connecting the notions of myself - the daughter and my family history - the memories, I will begin to convey a therapeutic substance of theoretical disclosure, with respect to my father for allowing the practices to continue in his personal space.