In 1998 my grandparents committed suicide. On the front door was a note stating that only the police had access. Their farewell letters lay on the kitchen table next to a pile of borrowed books that needed to be returned.
In this project all the photographs were taken at our summer house on an island where my family and relatives gathers every summer. The house was built by my grandparents and is now inhabited by three generations. I found my grandmother’s negatives in our attic. She had used the same format and camera as me. Her photographs were taken on the same island, in the same summerhouse. I started to scan our images on top of each other to create a double exposure with 60 years between them. With them I move forward and backward in time, discovering it’s a circle.
about the artist
Vanni Jung Ståhle comes from a background as a documentary photographer but now works as an artist with documentary elements. Her artistic expression is based on encounters. She starts from a limited geographical location and then relates to a smaller group.
