https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/3ee336ec39a031f185ba915045554689.jpg 4449a499c8ff729b6ce212dbf4553d86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Personal Book Photo Book Dimensions Dimensions of object in cm 30 x 19 x 2 Number of Pages Number of Pages 48 Number of images Number of images 41 Edition Size Edition Size 200 Place of Publication Place of Publication Oxford Designer Designer Stanley James Press Website Website www.katecarpenter.com URL Link to project URL Link to project www.katecarpenter.com/kaleidoscope Where to buy Where to buy www.katecarpenter.com/shop Links to reviews Links to reviews https://www.instagram.com/p/C4vNUVkooUu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kaleidoscope 1857.PERSONAL.CARPENTER Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kate Carpenter Description An account of the resource The last few years found me caring for my mother and aunt, both with dementia, like their mother before them. My mother (like my father) was a photographer. The old family album is a wonderful archive, but aptly enough, it’s fallen to bits over the years. There are blank pages, dried up bits of tape, prints jumbled and identities forgotten. Other pictures have resurfaced after years in the attic, and are now taking turns on the mantelpiece like an ever-changing museum of our lives. I tried to put the prints in order, to tell a version of my mother’s story before it is forgotten. I’ve coupled these with observational and portrait images that I have been making for the last few years in the house and garden shared by my mother and aunt until their recent deaths. I punctuate the narrative with dark, metaphorical images about forgetting. Some of these are the empty pages of the album with their half-century old sticky tape marks. Some are woodland images that I make to process my feelings about the present and the future; tangled branch and root structures expressing ideas about the twin legacies of dementia and photography in my family and what it all means for me. I didn’t want this project to incite pity or to have a trajectory defined by loss alone. I wanted it to be celebratory too. I wanted to show the love and joy and creativity that, despite everything, still remained. Subject The topic of the resource 9999 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Hand-sewn photobook in slipcase, with text insert, fold-out, and extra print. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Self-published