A set of non-public photos specializing in matriarchal dynamics and the methods we’re formed by loss. Los Angeles-based photographer Kaitlin Maxwell was raised in South Florida and skilled the passing of her father at a younger age. Pictures has been a means for Maxwell to navigate the world, discover which means and a way of identification. Utilizing pure gentle and a medium format movie digital camera, Maxwell’s follow is an intimate examine of the human situation, rooted in a need to grasp what it means to be seen. It additionally acts as a window into her personal life as she searches for connection. What started as an try to know the complexities of her relationship together with her mom and grandmother, has advanced right into a decade lengthy meditation on reminiscence, efficiency, and loss. Right here Maxwell images “what was as soon as inaccessibile.” Every {photograph} is a examine in absence, the place presence lies inside what we don’t see. The ladies depicted not exist, with the photographs serving as relics of previous variations of themselves:
“These images are collaborations grounded in vulnerability, and every picture leads me again to the place I started, trying to find connection…. The lack of my grandfather in 2021 felt like a closing bracket, the loss of life of two essential male figures bookending a physique of labor centered on girls. Within the wake of his passing, a metamorphosis occurred in my mom. The girl who was as soon as the topic of my gaze, grew to become a mirror. I noticed her in the identical search I used to be endeavor, a daughter searching for her father.”
Kaitlin Maxwell participated in our 2025 Booooooom Artwork & Picture Guide Award and made our shortlist.
