Echotombs #1 - The Wickety Fish

Echotombs is a photographic collection that explores ideas of personal memory, oral storytelling, archiving, and photographic materiality. Inspired by the lineage of photogram artists such as Anna Atkins and Man Ray, Stephanie Leneé Vance converses with past tradition while imagining new methods of photographic permanence facilitated by the blockchain. This project is derived from Stephanie’s personal collection of objects that represent memories of life events spanning from childhood to the current day. The artist associates each work with a life memory, each encapsulated in an image that exists in an uneven balance of legibility and loss. To make these works, Stephanie placed each objec...View all