The
Ancestor Blueprint photography project examines the relationship between ancestry, family
history and identity. The project consists of a portrait series that juxtaposes
contemporary images of modern-day Jewish subjects with Old World pictures of
their grandparents, illuminating striking familial resemblances across
generations and vivid contrasts shaped by historical, social and cultural discontinuities.
The project is an attempt to uncover a poignant connection
with our personal and collective past, while exploring the relationship between
inherited traits and self-identity through the idioms of digital and vintage
photography.
Ancestor Blueprint follows modern Jewish immigrants across the globe
to reveal how distant family histories are inscribed into the folds of the
contemporary Jewish self. The elegiac family photographs bear a special
significance as they testify to the upheavals of history, uprootedness, and the
pains of immigration while presenting before us the only evidence of a bygone family
past.
This project is made possible through a grant by the Blueprint Fellowship project of COJECO and The Jewish Agency for Israel, funded by the UJA-Federation of NY.
This project is made possible through a grant by the Blueprint Fellowship project of COJECO and The Jewish Agency for Israel, funded by the UJA-Federation of NY.
