CHANG
Ting Chen
 

Those familiar faces in the family photos were trying hard to show out completely, and insisting on keeping silent to avoid accidentally falling out of focus within the intimate relationship which was established by gaze and ritual.

Therefore, archives, as a kind of artificial memory, afford a way to maintain meaning through fixed forms in the context of family.
However, if the essence of photography can be revived in this surface of the image, 
 

 “Then, those people are just like my family. And these people could be not my family either.”