The Inheritance of Memory

• Prize
  Silver in Portraiture/Other
• Photographer
  Timothi Jane Graham, United States
• Date of Photograph
  August 2019
• Studio
  Timothi Photography
• Website
  http://www.timothijanegraham.com

In August 2019 I began work on The Inheritance Of Memory. I wanted to explore the different paths Holocaust Survivors took after liberation. Many came to America in search of reinvention, others journeyed to Israel where they continued the fight for freedom. Others, in an effort to make sense of the past, went back to the cities and villages they were torn from. I started in California, but my vision moving forward is to journey to Israel and Eastern Europe to capture the last of these survivors. We, as witnesses, are the inheritors of memory, entrusted to carry these stories forward.

• Biography
  Timothi Jane Graham was born and raised in New York. Early projects document the Bishnoi people of the Thar Desert in India as well as villagers in Lodtunduh Indonesia where she recorded daily life and ritual. Recent projects include The Inheritance of Memory, documenting the last remaining Holocaust Survivors and an ongoing project she began in 2020 entitled Inversions, focusing on members of the Trans Community. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Dodho, Docu, F Stop and Sugar Magazines as well as in exhibitions in New York, Paris and Indonesia.
• Awards
  2022 Paris Prix de La Photographie/ Gold/ Feature Story / Press / Lexi 2022 International Photo Awards/ Official Selection / Feature Story / Press / Lexi 2022 Budapest International Foto Awards/Gold/Feature Story /Press / Lexi 2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards/Official Selection / Feature Story/ Press/Lexi 2020 Paris Prix de La Photographie/ Silver / Portraiture / The Inheritance of Memory 2020 International Photo Awards/ Honorable Mention / Featured Story/ Press/ The Inheritance of Memory 2020 Lange Taylor Prize Semi Finalist / The Inheritance of Memory