This project is still a work in progress

Photography has long been seen as a tool of preservation, a way to fix memory, identity, and truth. Personal Technologies challenges this assumption by asking what happens when the photographic image is altered, disrupted, or destabilized. Rather than serving as fixed representations, photographs in this work become mutable artifacts shaped by intervention, erosion, and external forces. In the same way, personal histories and identities are continuously shaped by experience and circumstance.

Through physical alteration and layering, the work explores the evolving relationship between past experience and material transformation. Each alteration becomes an act of discovery, an inquiry into how images, like personal narratives, are absorbed into larger systems of power, commerce, and bureaucracy. Some photographs bear marks of intervention that suggest censorship, decay, or erasure. Others incorporate advertising and found imagery, blending the personal with the commercial to reflect how even private experiences are mediated by external structures.

Bridging material experimentation with conceptual inquiry, Personal Technologies examines how individuals navigate, reshape, and reclaim their own histories. The work is not just an investigation into photography’s instability but also a process of self-invention. It creates an ongoing dialogue between what is inherited, what is imposed, and what is discovered.