A photo of New Orleans photographer Casey Joiner’s memory, sadness and family bond (previously appeared here). Joiner’s pictures are loosely rooted in documentary traditions, with formalist beliefs, democratic vernacular and magical realist attitudes. Her work was raised by growing up in the Deep South. “Butler” traces the strange but not linear landscape of loss. Moving between still life, interior and portraits (whether real or imagined), these images reflect the twists of sadness and the fragility of memory. It also considers the return of the meaning of parents’ death, the concept of “family” and the loss:
“This project really started with me being fully aware of what I was doing. While my father’s long illness and ultimately spread in March 2023, I found myself gliding between memory and dreams. The camera became a way to keep and let him allow at the same time – a feeling that makes sense, and when memory is not enough memory… They have been life, but neither stuck, but have been stuck in memory, but facts are facts, but facts are facts.
Casey Joiner’s project is being published as a monograph by Fall Line Press, and she is currently raising funds through Kickstarter.
