Research - Audrey Corregan

Audrey Corregan is a French born photographer based in Paris. She began a more familiar name in 2008 when she won a competition and her work began getting a lot more publication and noticed more. The project I am interested in is called "A family affair" where she takes photographs that she finds or is given from family albums. The difference between her and other people doing a similar idea is that with her work, you never see the subject.


I first read about it on a media blog and it caught my attention because I hadn't really heard of a similar project and so it interested me. By photographing the backs of the various photographs, you get an entirely different perspective on the family photographs. Sometimes the back is plain barring the stamp made by the printer or the paper itself. Sometimes there is just a place, just a date or sometimes more information is disclosed in a few words or captions.


The thing I like is that you get to be the storyteller. You can imagine what they were doing or what was in frame or eve more trivial things like where they've kept the photos and had they been damaged, looked at lots. It's an alternative way of letting someone into your family life and you don't reveal anything you don't want.