Travel and dreams

I guess from lots of different places. I love stories; film, theatre, literature, and the everyday stories we all have.  In my journalistic work I began to realise that I was collecting life-stories from the people I was photographing, to illustrate the situations they were living in and to bring the pieces to life, to add context to the images themselves.

 

This project is about the tales and myths which we use to tell our own lives; memories, life-stories, beliefs. In many ways, stories and memories are a uniquely human experience; we have used them for generations to illustrate our lives, record ourselves for the future, and to make sense of the past. 

  

 

 

My more personal work seems to have arisen by itself – I had the idea of memories from my own early memory and grew from there. I think we are influenced more than we realise by images all over the place – advertising posters, tv, film, just moving around in the world – I’m sure all my ideas have been sparked by things I’ve seen and only half-recognised.

 

Photos and text:
Lottie Davies