Mum's Got To Sell The House

Abstract

This visual essay reports on the production of the photographic text Mum's got to sell the house. The project arose from qualitative action research based upon the strategies of collaborative memory work within the family. The analysis of the project presented here posits that the photograph, and indeed the practice of photography, can be positively understood as the site for the production and representation of memory, one which is future oriented and active in the construction of identity and agency.

Notes

1 See, for example, Albert Chong's “The Sisters and Aunt Winnie”.

2 Author's own notes, unpublished.

3 For a discussion of Susan Hiller's creation of “a discourse in which we could allow narratives of an archaeological nature to occur” see “The Ordering of Knowledge” in Gibbons.

4 See Michel de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life.