The Wake of Dust by Thomas Hauser

The Wake of Dust by photographer Thomas Hauser and designer Fred Cave is a study of memory and the way this is preserved, archived, or can be reconstructed. When Thomas Hauser’s grandmother passed away in 2010 he gained access to his family archives of letters, photographs, and objects that were unknown to him until then. Wishing to make his own visual version of a family narrative the family photo archive was decomposed and constructed into a mysterious series of images. Cave and Hauser repeat, montage, manipulate, and sequence the sources showing a new story. Some portraits appear multiple times, in different edits or crops creating resonances and echoes. The overprinting of the black and white images and its grainy outcome gives layers of uncertainty, creating ghost-like effects and transient connections.