Ellen Lysmo
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My Little Town
My name is Ellen Lysmo and I am a recent photography graduate from Camberwell College of Arts, UAL. The artwork was an installation piece which combined archival and new images of my family. The full installation can be seen on my website under the projects tab. The whole project was multifaceted and dealt with a multitude of subjects, like domesticity, loss, disconnections from home but most importantly - my grandmother who suffers from dementia, therefore I find it fitting to submit some images from the project which deal with this specific subject matter.
An excerpt from the description of this project reads: The installation My Little Town (2022) includes prints of archival materials and photographs of my family and the landscape surrounding my home town in the county of Skåne in southern Sweden. My grandmother Berglot was the beginning idea for the project. My mother and uncle had to sell her house after she was moved into a nursing home, unable to take care of herself due to suffering from dementia and this uncovered her never-ending archive of documents, photographs, notebooks and newspaper clippings. All of her and my grandad’s history has been forgotten and the only thing left is the archive. It has been a process of puzzle-piecing together the images to create a fragmented history of our family and the ties we have to our homeland.
