Family Portraits

Family Portraits is a journey into the fragility of the past, an attempt to reclaim what has been lost yet still lives within each of us. The blurred images, like memories, do not tell a single personal story: they become spaces, objects, and connections suspended in time, inviting viewers to place their own memories, dreams, and nostalgia within them. The photographs intertwine. Some come from personal family archives, while others originate from forgotten or abandoned collections purchased on online auction sites. They are relics of the everyday: birthdays, family gatherings, weddings—simple gestures that, in their intimacy, become universal. The blur does not hide but reveals. It dissolves the edges, erases specific identities, and allows fragments of life to belong to anyone. Those who view these images are not mere spectators but participants in a collective ritual: finding themselves in faces they have never known, in rooms they have never inhabited, yet feel deeply familiar. Each photograph is a threshold: a passage between past and present, between the image we remember and the one we create by looking at it. It is an invitation to reflect on the substance of memories—their ability to transform, flow, and become something else. These blurred faces ask us: What remains of us once time has rendered us undefined? It is a silent dialogue with time, a whisper reminding us that, in the repetition of gestures and rituals, there is a shared humanity, a nostalgia that envelops us all, and an invisible thread binding us all together.