Lynn Cazabon

Discard (2001 - present), pigment ink jet prints, Fuji Crystal Archive prints

Discard is an ongoing body of work consisting of several discrete series of images featuring movie films discarded by public institutions (libraries, schools, archives). Harking back to the 19th century practice of postmortem photography, each print serves as a memento mori to the recently obsolete medium of film. In its totality, Discard is a kind of shadow archive, reflecting that which has been omitted from institutional archives. The inaccessibility of the full contents of the films in these images is relative to their new position on the outskirts of culture.