Archival Project - Found Photographs

My Aunt, Shirley Moss, has amassed hundreds of printed images over the course of her life. Black and white and color photography taken between the 1960s and 2000s on a variety of cameras. No intention of calling herself a photographer, I assume taking pictures for my Aunt has been a way of holding onto the people close to her and the things she finds herself drawn to.

As I began flipping through the piles of history in her home, I found myself moved by her way of looking at the world. A perspective quite unique, emotionally arresting, and affirming to my own photographic practice. Growing up in a post-segregation America, her photos capture life in the Midwestern Region of the United Sates and Central Los Angeles where she now resides.