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November 19, 2009
The 2010 exhibition programme for Fotofreo 2010 is now online. One of the core exhibitors is Carrie Levy whose book 51 Months documents the period that her father Glenn went to jail and was then released.
Carrie Levy, mom, from 51 Months
51 Months convey some of the emotions that a family will experience when the father is imprisoned and then returns. A blurb I came across describes the family situation:
On her 16th birthday, her father was sentenced to four years in prison. Levy soon grasped the consequences: people’s sidelong glances, and the whispers and stares at her school, which she left early in order to escape her own prison. Then she picked up her camera and started to photograph the empty spaces in her home, on the road, her garden, and outside the prison. The touching images in 51 Months are redolent of loss, of vacant lanscapes that for Levy were filled with painful meaning. Levy’s singular story ended when her father came home, four years later, and she tucked her container of 500 photographs under her bed where they remained a hidden visual narrative–until now..
The book, according to this review, feels like a personal document --akin to looking through someone else's photograph album that depict a difficult time in their personal life.
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