Kirill Maler

This project took me on a digital meander through various photo archives on sites such as Flickr and Facebook. I realised that I’m working with repositories of people's experiences that were uploaded to the internet (often decades ago) and now remain open for anyone to look through. As the project progressed, I began to use more of my own images. There was an unease about simply using someone else’s experiences as the foundation for my work. 

There’s an intimacy to the images we accumulate on our phones over the years. Sublime and painful moments. Quotidian scenes. Houses I’ll never see again and people I once loved. My memories are fading, but how long will these images persist on my iCloud? Will they live on past my death and past the decay of all my physical possessions?

These were some of the thoughts I had in mind throughout the project.