What We Leave Behind

• Photographer
  Diane Fenster

What We Leave Behind For this series, I employ an imperfect transfer process that acts as a metaphor for the fragility of memory and aging. Both the mechanics of the process and the physicality of the image feel like a shedding of skin.This peeling away relates to the evidence of waning and loss within myself and others. As we move through the years of our lives, we leave behind parts of ourselves along the way thereby creating a beauty derived from entropy.

I am a self-taught photographer exhibiting since 1990. My work first received notice during the era of early experimentations with digital imaging. I view myself as an alchemist, using alternative process, antique photographic methods, toy camera and digital tools to delve into fundamental human issues. My work is literary and emotional, full of symbolism and multiple layers of meaning with a style that marries photography with evocative and fragmented imagery.