Sometimes looking back and sifting through family photo's can stir memories that are visceral trigging emotions and images of the past that nestle deeply in your mind's memory banks. So inspired by the family archive I kept after Mum died, whilst studying at art school, I wrote and curated Mementoes-A Meditation on a Personal Archive which you can read via the link above. The study is based on the extensive research and reading I did; especially the work of Roland Barthes, the cultural theorist who produced a seminal analysis of family photo's called Camera Lucida...Here's an extract from page 1 (full of academic references which are mandatory at university I'm afraid):