"Housekeeping" by Photographer Casey Joiner

"Loosely rooted in the documentary tradition, Joiner's pictures have a formalist conviction, democratic vernacular, and a magical realist attitude. Her work is informed by growing up in the Deep South. "Housekeeping" traces the strange and nonlinear landscape of loss. Moving between still lifes, interiors, and portraits (both real and imagined), the images reflect the distortions of grief and the fragile persistence of memory."

""This project truly began long before I was fully aware of what I was making. While navigating the long illness and eventual passing of my father in March 2023, I found myself slipping between memory and dream. The camera became a way of holding on and letting go at the same time-a way to make sense of grief when memory alone wasn't enough....They are fragments of a life, stitched together like memory itself - truthful, but not always factual.""

A New Orleans–based photographer assembles a photo monograph that traces the nonlinear landscape of loss through still lifes, interiors, and portraits both real and imagined. Photographs blend documentary roots with formalist composition, vernacular democracy, and magical realist sensibility. The images reflect distortions of grief, the fragile persistence of memory, and the regression to childhood that can follow a parent's death. Photography functions as a method of simultaneously holding on and letting go, creating stitched fragments of life that aim for emotional truth rather than strict factual completeness. The book is slated for publication by Fall Line Press and is fundraising on Kickstarter.

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