Architecture of memory
Architecture of Memory is a documentary project exploring home as a living archive in the aftermath of labor. Set within the apartment of an elderly couple who once ran a bakery from their home, the photographs trace the quiet rhythms of later life after work has receded. The bakery survives only in fragments; an oven, worn utensils, familiar spaces while the home itself becomes a repository of memory. Through everyday acts of care, routine, and community, the project considers how domestic spaces continue to preserve the histories of shared labor, even in its absence.
I chose to photograph this family because they quietly shaped my understanding of care and family while I was growing up. Having been raised in a single-parent household, I often watched them work side by side; baking, cooking, delivering bread, and sharing domestic responsibilities. Their home became my earliest understanding that care is collaborative and that domestic labor need not be defined by gender. Returning to photograph them 16 years later became a way of exploring not only what remains after labor has faded, but also how the spaces and people that shape us continue to live within our memories.
