Single - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Experimental photography »

I work with childhood photographs taken by my father. As part of my „Family Album” project, I intervene in them manually - I print and paint over the images, layering memories, emotions, doubts, and defiance. In this way, I challenge the original narrative, often aestheticized and one-sided.

The photographs reveal my father’s way of constructing our family story and the way I was portrayed within it. Growing up in a dysfunctional family, I experienced constant tension, suppressed anger, and unspoken resentment. Family Album becomes a form of response, an attempt to release these hidden emotions and to engage in a dialogue, or even a confrontation, with my father’s narrative.

The images from our family archive are not only records of the past but also carriers of social and cultural notions of what a family should look like. They reflect the mechanisms through which identity and belonging are formed, as well as the expectations imposed by familiar patterns of representation. I am interested in the tension between what is visible and what is concealed, between memory and present experience. I treat the image not only as a trace of the past but also as a space of projection - a place where different versions of the same story meet.