Perennial - Film:

Documentation by Rachel Topham & Hannah Campbell

"to scrutinize means to turn the photograph over, to enter into the paper's depth, to reach its other side...Alas, however hard I look, I discover nothing."

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida.

Transcription of the texts on the backs of the photographs:

This is her

凤芹

1945

My baby age 1

1949

Victory

Class of 1952. Fu Xin Elementary school, Inner Mongolian Region

Fuxin No. 2 People’s Hospital, 1965

This is where we live

Our house

With members of our brigade

Seth Billy Hilda

Billy Camilla Bonnie Billy Patrick

Håkan o Gunilla

Garden in the house

Two of the houses on the swimming beach. See the piling?

Sue Sada was here

The first time we saw snow

Friday Oct4/67 Wedding Day

Palace Versaille

Grand Canyon

Zwolle

Echo Lake

The best of our times

Your hair was long then

Funeral

An ending

A beginning

和悦悦在劳动公园,悦悦和小鸟互动

Song Sparrow?

Reunited in Canada, November 10, 2020

春,歸り道

Forgetting

Remember this, kids?