photographer jason lazarus started this project. he requests that people send in photos that they feel are "too hard to keep". this implies that the images bring up memories that are too painful, so painful that they don't want to see these photos anymore. that makes it seem like by giving away these photographs, the person will no longer have that memory... or at least, will not have to think about it.
this is the most intense one that i've seen. in this case i can see why that's something you'd want to forget - but why was the image taken in the first place? evidence?
then there are others like this one that just seem silly to me. why did she take this photo if she didn't want to remember? she looks like she's been crying. i'm guessing that message on the mirror was someone breaking up with her. or was she doing the breaking? either way, again i question why she would even take the photo if she doesn't want to remember it...
this one is more like what i would expect. and this one makes the most sense to me.
it's kind of fun to think about why people submitted the photos they did. i think he needs to get a lot more submissions, though... there just aren't enough at this point.
who knows. maybe it'll be the next post secret.
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ReplyDeletegreat post. super interesting artist.
ReplyDeletealso awesome. their website. haha
im particularly interested in the individuals who send in large numbers of photographs. like the set of 175 from one person which i would assume, are all of them and their lover of that time...or the parasailing one that apparently came in a set of 144...i wonder how they chose which images to show from these batches and which to not. why not show them all? isnt that part of the point? i think the narratives in the batches could be super intriguing and also feed insight, somehow, after lots and lots of viewing, into the other more ambiguous images that didnt...
and you're totally right on some of them...why capture something so awful thats 'to hard to keep'...is it therapeutic to capture it and then release it maybe? or is just a strange form of attention hunger....
i love the seemingly normal simple one person portraits as well. particularly the image of the man with grey hair clasping his hands. its so confrontational and stirs all kinds of stories. daaannnggggg. haha