Danielle Smelter

In Absentia

This is the beginning of a project I’ve been contemplating for a while now.  I took these couple of images over the weekend but want to work towards building out the series into a photobook.

Distraction, 2015

Slumbering, 2015

I’ve been reflecting on the role of screens in contemporary family life and relationships more broadly. Connection and disconnection, absence and presence, inhabited psychological spaces, illumination and things that lie hidden in the shadows, things that fall within and without the frame… 

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