Death in the Selfie Age

25,700 photographs to chronicle one life. Photographs of all the firsts:  teeth, steps, days of school.  Photographs of the most significant days:  weddings, graduations, birthday celebrations.  But also photographs of the most routine days, of the most common activities:  taking a walk, eating a meal, hanging out with a friend. Imagine them piled somewhere – overflowing thousands of albums or stuffed in dozens of bins, cycling on a lengthy loop projected onto a large screen. These are not 25,700 photos taken by media sources; they are not the pictures of celebrities, politicians, or anyone famous. These are photos of one […]