Margot Sharman, My Keep Safes (Documentary/Photojournalism)

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know” Diane Arbus Over the course of many years I have quietly and without others noticing placed items of significance into a specially created hand made box. To say that the items within this series have deep meaning to me almost approaches a cliché. However, last year it became appropriate for them to be seen by others for the very first time as a collection within my photographic practice. Each object within its own collection holds many memories and stories, as do the decisions and fatalistic events that preceded each object and those that have occurred in the many years after. Those moments will be for another time…

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