About the Book

Aphasia is a photographic project that explores themes of impermanence, decay, and the nonlinear process of healing after a traumatic experience. Through a combination of archival imagery and new photographs, the project offers a poetic and deeply personal meditation on rupture and self-reconstruction. Although I've been photographing for as long as I can remember, a few years ago I recovered from a concussion that altered my cognitive functioning and changed how I saw things overall. This project is a conceptual reinterpretation of my photographic archive, where I re-edited years of work into a new whole that both reflects the cognitive changes I underwent and has helped me heal. It is a visual journey made up of stitched-together fragments -connected through color, energy, meaning, and aesthetic- and is edited in such a way that the meaning of each image is shaped by those that come before and after it. A photograph impulsively taken years ago suddenly finds its place and purpose. I see it a bit like a film made from found footage-but here, the footage is my own, and I'm piecing it together anew.                                                                                                                                                                                               

Designed by Sternthal Books. Printed at Die Keure in Belgium, distributed by Idea Books.