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What You Left Behind. Manipulated digital inkjet images in a hand-bound black-paper-covered coptic-sewn photo album. Vintage button tie. 210 x 152 x 18mm. Edition of 2. Canberra: Ampersand Duck, 2005. Price on Application.

Family photos are redolent with memories and associations. When one member of the family chooses to die, everything changes. Images are no longer simple narratives or innocent souvenirs; they become tainted by what is left behind.