Photographer Tracy L Chandler presents her project 'A Poor Sort of Memory', wherein she revisits her Los Angeles roots, inspired by the White Queen's quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Rather than seeking definitive truths, Chandler navigates her past filled with trauma, longing for belonging and independence. She photographs familiar yet alien landscapes, revealing her ambivalence between objective reality and subjective truth. Embracing the complexity of memory, she creates a loose photographic fiction that captures her history's nuances. The project is available as a photo book published by Deadbeat Club.
As I revisit old hideouts in concrete washes and private bunks in rock formations, I am reminded of a past laden with trauma and my youthful desperation to find both a sense of belonging and independence.
Now I return to these spaces to photograph. This land is strikingly beautiful but also feels both claustrophobically familiar and alien with dis-belonging.
I contend with the conflict of the seemingly objective reality before me versus the subjective truth of my memories.
I embrace this unreliable narrator and use the tracings of my history to craft a new loose photographic fiction.
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