Reliquaries

• Photographer
  Anna Roach, United States
• Studio
  Spare Parts Fine Art
• Website
  http://www.whereisfrances.com/

Reliquaries is an ongoing series of hand-rendered photocopies.
For this project, I mined flea markets, antique and thrift stores,
eBay, yard sales, an other sundry sources for analog snapshots
taken before the use of digital cameras.
My work is an endless search for authentic ways to suggest that
the observable world is not as secure as it seems, to give
significance to the unknown, and to reflect the limits of
perception.
An archive of found, anonymous, snapshots are authentic
documents that report from a gray area of history, and I see their
imperfections as a visual metaphor for the limitations of memory,
This project requires a disciplined repression of the urge to clarify
or resolve images that seem incomplete, as they are literal
fragments of buried, and uncovered, history - outdated media
composing layers of strata beneath a camera-focused culture.

• Biography
  I am curious about the world. I take photographs to help me understand it better. Every photo quiets the script in my head and forces me to listen. They help me untangle myself from old truths so that I can commit myself to finding a new and more truthful existence. Photography helps me see things as they are, not as they seemed to be.
• Awards
  WINNER PX3 SELF PORTRAITURE, PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2012 ART TAKES MIAMI TOP 200 2012 PHOTOGRAPHERS FORUM BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2011 HONORABLE MENTION WINNER OF PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2011 15 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2011 WINNER PX3, PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2010 HONORABLE MENTION WINNER OF PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2010 PHOTOGRAPHERS FORUM BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2010