Familie en vrienden 1935 - 1940

This album page, called "Familie en vrienden" (Family and Friends), is made up of black and white photographs, pasted onto a dark grey page. The creator is unknown, but, like any page in a photo album, it is a work of curation. I imagine the maker carefully choosing which pictures to include, and where to place them on the page. There is such a tenderness to personal photography, a celebration of captured moments. I imagine the person who made this album turning the pages, reliving memories, perhaps tracing the outlines of the photos with their fingers. The slightly blurry quality of some images lends a dreamlike quality, blurring the line between memory and imagination. The faded tones evoke nostalgia, a longing for times gone by. It makes me think about the role of memory in shaping our understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others.