2021 SPE Annual Conference: CANCELLED Imagining Legacy: Archives, Collections, and Memoria
Looking for a chapter event?
Past SPE Annual Conferences
Midwest Chapter Conference Schedule
print this pageRachel Cox
Shiny Ghost
Friday, October 07 - 11:00AM to 12:00PM
Lindell Room C - Chase Park Plaza
In my project Shiny Ghost , I have documented the final years of my Grandmother’s life as she was suffering from a degenerative brain disease. The images were made during moments of conversation, gesture, and experiences of death. The variety of photographic approaches towards the subjects are representative of a frantic need to record all aspects of my knowledge of her (whether performative or candid) in a hopes that these moments could be pieced together again, attempting to construct a more accurate portrait of how I would remember her. My Grandmother and I had a tumultuous relationship, one that was never thoroughly understood. Through photography conflicts of tastes and values were managed, and looking back on the project, the photographs reveal a deeper language we had been sharing for years, constituted of mutual vulnerability and trust, acted upon even in death.
speaker
Rachel Cox
Become an SPE Partner
The SPE Partners program offers three packages which provide flexible opportunities for schools, businesses, and nonprofit organizations to subsidize faculty, staff, students, and broader community participation in SPE.
Have a great assignment or resource to share? Submit it to our Teaching Tools!
About
Join
Members
Annual Conference
- About the Conference
- Overview
- Speakers
- Schedule
- Registration
- Volunteer
- Sponsors
- Exhibit
- Anti-Harassment Policy
- Hotel & Travel
- Location + Travel
- Hotel
- Schedule of Events
- Schedule
News & Events
Chapters
Exposure Journal
About this piece
Comments about this piece
Dialogue and critique are important to the SPE mission.
Please join the conversation.