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Rachel Elizabeth Seed is raising funds for A Photographic Memory, a personal documentary film about a daughter's search for the mother she never knew through their shared love of photography, through Wednesday Jul 3. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/1774742582/a-photographic-memory
From Rachel: This project began when I uncovered some boxes of short films at my dad's house about the photographic icons Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Cornell Capa, Lisette Model, W. Eugene Smith, William Albert Allard, Don McCullin, and others. My mother, Sheila Turner-Seed had directed and edited the films in the early '70s. Since she died so long ago, I thought maybe I could learn more about her life if I retraced their origins.
I discovered that her raw interviews had been sitting like a time capsule at the International Center of Photography since 1979 when my dad sent them there for safekeeping. This led me to start A Photographic Memory, a film celebrating my mother's life and work, as well as ICP founder Cornell Capa's vision for photography.
In A Photographic Memory, I go on a journey to learn -- through our shared profession -- about the mother I never knew but whom I so desperately need to know. My mother, Sheila, was an ambitious New York and London-based writer, editor and producer who died suddenly in 1979. I was 18 months old and she had completed, a few years earlier, a series of award-winning film programs about influential photographers that were co-produced by International Center of Photography founder Cornell Capa and Scholastic. After revisiting these photographers in New York, France and England or, if deceased, their closest associations, I am blending my mother's 1970s interviews with my own footage, creating a posthumous mother-daughter collaboration that connects me to my mother while re-examining the course of the careers of some of the most influential photographers in the history of the medium.
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London-born, Brooklyn-based photographer / filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed uses both mediums to explore socioanthropological topics in contemporary culture.
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The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel is an educational resource which features interviews, multimedia, lectures & films in photojournalism, documentary & fine art photography. Watch DEVELOP Tube on Vimeo: vimeo.com/channels/developphoto and on YouTube: youtube.com/user/DEVELOPPhoto
Rachel Elizabeth Seed is raising funds for A Photographic Memory, a personal documentary film about a daughter's search for the mother she never knew through their shared love of photography, through Wednesday Jul 3. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/1774742582/a-photographic-memory
From Rachel: This project began when I uncovered some boxes of short films at my dad's house about the photographic icons Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Cornell Capa, Lisette Model, W. Eugene Smith, William Albert Allard, Don McCullin, and others. My mother, Sheila Turner-Seed had directed and edited the films in the early '70s. Since she died so long ago, I thought maybe I could learn more about her life if I retraced their origins.
I discovered that her raw interviews had been sitting like a time capsule at the International Center of Photography since 1979 when my dad sent them there for safekeeping. This led me to start A Photographic Memory, a film celebrating my mother's life and work, as well as ICP founder Cornell Capa's vision for photography.
In A Photographic Memory, I go on a journey to learn -- through our shared profession -- about the mother I never knew but whom I so desperately need to know. My mother, Sheila, was an ambitious New York and London-based writer, editor and producer who died suddenly in 1979. I was 18 months old and she had completed, a few years earlier, a series of award-winning film programs about influential photographers that were co-produced by International Center of Photography founder Cornell Capa and Scholastic. After revisiting these photographers in New York, France and England or, if deceased, their closest associations, I am blending my mother's 1970s interviews with my own footage, creating a posthumous mother-daughter collaboration that connects me to my mother while re-examining the course of the careers of some of the most influential photographers in the history of the medium.
rachelseed.com
facebook.com/apmfilm
London-born, Brooklyn-based photographer / filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed uses both mediums to explore socioanthropological topics in contemporary culture.
***************
The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel is an educational resource which features interviews, multimedia, lectures & films in photojournalism, documentary & fine art photography. Watch DEVELOP Tube on Vimeo: vimeo.com/channels/developphoto and on YouTube: youtube.com/user/DEVELOPPhoto
