Expired Film Roll

2024

This project was created in an attempt to understand my grandfather’s struggle with Alzheimer’s.

I documented his bedroom using expired film in order to observe the gaps in memory of a place he once knew so well.

Upon learning of his diagnosis, I felt compelled to discuss the loss of control that comes with this disease. While I witnessed him struggle as his sickness progressed, I aimed to grasp what it felt like to unlearn skills, to forget faces and to struggle with a language you’ve known your whole life.

I relinquished control of this series by shooting with film that had expired 25 years prior to draw a parallel between the uncertainty of his illness and the obscurity of the images. In this project, I saw his bedroom like he would, unclear, undefined and very blue.