Show One | 03.27.2026
Annalise Bennett
GRAPHIC DESIGN
I was gifted my Pentax K1000 when I was 12 years old and have since spent a
significant amount of time and money photographing and developing photos. Journals,
scrapbooks, and photo albums have populated my bookshelves and bedsides most of
my life. These are mere attempts to hold on to the moments that have made up my life.
In sorting through photos that I have taken over the years, as well as photos taken by
my siblings and parents, I've noticed a pit in my stomach looking at photos of my
childhood home. My family has been in our house for over 20 years. It is a site of warm
nostalgia as well as a site tangled with uncomfortable feelings and memories. This
house is not only a physical setting but also a vessel for all of its accumulated
emotional histories.
I am inspecting my home past its literal architecture, instead viewing it as an intimate
landscape impacted and shaped by layered and shifting memory as reflected in double
exposures. Some images contain literal documentation of the rooms. In other images,
light leaks and distortion interrupt clarity. When I reconstruct images of my childhood
home, I am also mapping a version of my own unreliable memories. Tracing how
memory, space and identity remain deeply entangled.
Accompanied by Ethan Bennett