When we think about time in relation to photography it’s easy to fall into a two-dimensional trap, where a photograph is seen as a flat, static record of an event that is fixed in time. In reality, time and photography occupy a more interactive continuum where past, present and future may all reside.
Rachel Nixon, a British Canadian photographer, exploits this abstract arena in her image ‘If We Had Met’, where she reimagines time in a poetic and meaningful way.
In 1943, after a short illness, Rachel’s great-grandmother, Maggie Victoria, died aged just 56. Her widower remarried, and quite unintentionally Maggie Victoria evaporated from the family history. More than 75 years later, after Rachel received a couple of carrier bags from her mother, she started to take an interest in…
