Using CGI, Canadian artist Benjamin Freedman presents a captivating image sequence which meticulously reconstructs his childhood memories of a family road trip to Maine in 1999. Blurring the line between reality and simulation, these surreal images toy with the ephemerality of memory and its inseparability from fantasy. Freedman's recreated scenes of roadside diners, pools, and picnics create a visceral and sensory dreamscape, evoking the sounds and smells attached to his childhood recollections.

These digitally constructed images explore how technology permits us to revisit and reimagine the past in ways that feel both familiar and uncanny. Distinctions between personal recollection and collective nostalgia are compromised, creating an idiosyncratic visual realm saturated with shared emotions and histories. Freedman's use of digital tools to recapture nostalgic scenes underscores the fluidity of memory while also challenging traditional conventions of the photographic medium.

With an essay by Cat Lachowskyj

About the Author
Benjamin Freedman is a Torontobased artist whose practice spans photography, video, sculpture, and digital art. He completed a Master of Design in Photography at Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. His projects have been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally, including at the Aperture Foundation in New York and Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.


Book Information
ISBN 9781915743862
Author Benjamin Freedman
Format Hardback
Imprint Self Publish, Be Happy
Publisher MACK