Like most Joachim Ladefoged was rocked by the events of 9:11 made worse by his becoming a new father just two months prior; it caused him to dramatically change the way he approached his work. He begun to examine the personal, cultural and historical legacy he might pass on to his child, so he travel back to Denmark and begun to create much slower more introspective pieces of work. Throughout the years 20002-2014 Ladefoged would travel around to the many homes he inhabited growing up, as his family moved around a lot. While looking back at his images in 2007 he decided that his images were still mirroring his previous style of work too much, which meant he discarded many images taken during this period. Setting out again but this time using a tripod so he could slow the images down even more that previously. 

His collection of images 'After my time' are a journey back in time, complied of visually dense images, sometimes carrying a haunting appearance which hide as much as they reveal. His images include obscured portraits of current residents of his previous homes, sharp landscapes of long roads leading off to nothing. 

Initially in my project i was going to be exploring the topic of self portraiture as well as the exploration of different ways to make prints, but due to COVID-19 my access to facilities were dramatically cut there fore my work had to change into something else. Even though there was a change i was still set on including some small pieces of self portrait to help further my work. Therefore my research on Lee Friedlander was still relevant.

The images in Lee Friedlander's book are all self portraits, images that he cultivated over numerous years and were never particularly intended to be apart of one collection. They naturally formed with his growing interest with how we interact with our environment, which i why many of these self portraits are indirect in their composition. Often being casting shadows on the environment around him, or transparent reflections on a window.

Back in 2011 when Birthe noticed he mother displaying the first signs of dementia, she begun photographing he family as a way of psychologically slowing down the disease. She begun what ended up being a seven year series, which also served as a backdrop for several smaller projects. Her images range from portraits and still lives. 

'Fictitious Family' is a project created by Norma Cordova it begun years after her fathers death, he suffered from Alzheimer's which he dealt with for a decade before ultimately taking his own life. Cordova looked through old family photographs, looking for clues of his disease, using them to create a remixed family photo album. Her images are dark, often printed in a dark room using an expired photo colour paper to create a blue and yellowing, which is representation of her nostalgia for the past. 

In an exhibition titled 'Mother Daughter' Mary McCartney displays her work alongside he mothers Linda McCarhty, the images were placed side by side rather than being separated by the different photographers. The exhibition explores the connection of family, common experiences and the power of growing up in a creative world.