mark menjivar

mark menjivar's 'i remember when project' collects his family's old kodachrome slides and super 8mm films and houses them as an archive in his guest bedroom closet. see more here.

[all mark menjivar. from the archives of joe font.]

Sara Condo

Sara Condo, Sam Flower, 2008

Sara Condo, Mom watching QVC, 2007

Sara Condo, Bad Title, 2008

Sara Condo, Mom in the snow, 2008

Sara Condo, MJ 23, 2009

Sara Condo, Dreamgirl, 2011

More of Sara's work here.

Cole Don Kelley

Cole Don Kelley, Halloweenie eating rabbit


Cole Don Kelley, Cameron eating watermelon


Cole Don Kelley, Window of the Intensive Care Unit

Cole Don Kelley, Self Portrait in the car

Cole Don Kelley, Christmas Dinner (Forgotten Older Photo)

Cole Don Kelley, Danica and Connor sleeping

Cole Don Kelley, Messy Matt

Cole Don Kelley, Emily on the Beach

Cole is based in Chicago. More work here.

seba kurtis

'shoe box' series by seba kurtis. "in the late 80s argentina suffered another crisis, where my dad lost his business and our house and belongings got repossessed. a shoe box with all the family memories was the one thing that remained. they had been damaged by flood..." see more here.

[all seba kurtis from the series shoe box.]

Ringel Goslinga

work by Ringel Goslinga. see more here.

(top) aunt's ex-husband; (middle) brother-in-law of father's third wife; (bottom) project overview from Family Tree. 2007.

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tatiana grigorenko

tatiana grigorenko's 'the disappeared' project. "an anti-portrait of a missing protagonist. inspired by soviet-era images that were manipulated to make individuals 'disappear' from history. the project is an exploration of memory, presence, invisibility and historical revision. blowing up my family's snapshots to the point that their grain structure started to fall apart, i meticulously removed myself from each image using collage and/or paint." see more here.

[all tatiana grigorenko. top to bottom: swimming. 1982. confederate flag. 1980. ballet. 1996.]

marion sosa

work by marion sosa. see more here.

[all marion sosa. from the series mummy dearest.]

latoya ruby frazier

work by latoya ruby frazier. see more here.

[all latoya ruby frazier. from the series the notion of family. top to bottom: aunt migee and grandma ruby. mom and her boyfriend mr. art. momme portrait series.]

paula muhr

paula muhr's 'absence' project. "the series includes both the old photographs of my mother from the family album and my own photographs of her...the meaning of private snapshots remains evasive even when the memory of the experience they document is still alive." see more here.

[all paula muhr. from the series absence. 2004-5.]

paula muhr

paula muhr's 'tito - tata' project. "a work based on pairing found images of the yugoslav communist president marshall tito, a famous womaniser and an undying idol of my father, with business photographs of my father while he was the director of one of the largest state-owned sweets factories in yugoslavia. the striking formal resemblance of the images points to underlying stereotypes governing the convention of representing dominant male figures." see more here.

[all paula muhr. from the series tito - tata. 2008.]

ben alper

work by ben alper. see more here.

[all ben alper. from the series the family dig. 2008-present.]

archive • awkward family photos

awkward family photos is well-named, a little mean-spirited, but still interesting. see more here. (i first saw this on art fag city)

[all from awkward family photos.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph