Ben Alper


Projects

                                                                

                                         
Erasure (2009 - 2011 )
Pigment prints
40 x 32”

Erasure examines the physical impressions and deterioration left behind by photographs that have been removed from family albums. These voided memories, evidenced in the faint residues left behind on the page, call attention to this dispossession through absence, rather than revelation.  In this way, these banished photo albums can be seen as contemporary ruins – the traces of a former history embedded on the surface, but relegated to obscurity and alienation. What remains is a landscape of loss. Ultimately, these images explore the implications of a less personal, more mechanized relationship to the photograph in contemporary society.