Hello, today I have the second issue of A Little Bit of Everything. This issue features some black and white photographs which were scanned from negatives I bought online. There is something about selling or giving away photographs that I find quite upsetting. I am a collector of all things and I have boxes of letters, keep sakes and photographs that I could never get rid of, so I find it hard to imagine that anyone else could. Not only am I now collecting bits and bobs from my own goings on but I am intrigued by the photographs, postcards and letters that people no longer want. At some point someone loved them enough to create them in the first place and someone else loved them enough to keep hold of them so at what point do you decide to give them up?
I know not everyone is nostalgic but there is something beautiful and heart warming of times past and without things to remind us of what has been many people forget. I am aware that just because there is no 'evidence' that something happened or once existed does not discount that it ever did but without photographs you would never know how you looked as a baby, remember how you looked as you were growing up, know the faces of relatives before your time or you were old enough to remember.
This all brings me back to a lesson at university when we were talking about memory and how much of our past do we remember through photographs rather than just relying on memory itself. I think photographs and remnants of our past makes us who we are and help us understand more about ourselves, taking us back to the people and places we used to know and love. This may all come across rather sad in its context but I don't mean for it to sound glum.
Photographs and keepsakes in many ways offer us the chance of time travel without the need of a TARDIS. This zine in particular was aimed to give these once cherished photos a new life and chance to be loved once more. I hope you like what I have done with them.
L x
L x
