the disappearance of letters
Once, writing a letter was an act of intimacy and anticipation. Letters connected lovers, friends and families across distances, and each one was eagerly awaited. As handwritten correspondence fades, so too will the postboxes and post offices that have long served as places of connection.
This ongoing photographic series reflects on the gradual disappearance of this treasured form of communication. Through portraits of people, images of vintage letters and photographs of the postal services that once connected us all, the project explores the passage of time and what we stand to lose.
The series also traces the evolution of photography itself. Portraits are made with a Bronica medium-format camera on 6 × 6 black-and-white film; postboxes are photographed with a Polaroid camera, post offices with a contemporary digital camera, and letters are scanned.
Each person who kindly agreed to be photographed, holds a letter they received many years ago.
