My name is Claire Kern, I am 30 years old. I am french and now I live in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
In 2009, my family home in Jura, France, burned down. Over thirty year of my parents life and 21 of mine own gone in 2 hours. On the second day after the event, I arrived at the house early in the morning and saved what I could… I saved the photographs. This set of photographs is the first months of my life taken on slides. They reacted to the heat of the fire and the water from the fire unit present on the night. This event with out knowing it brought a lot of thing to light and put soon into darkness. They manage to bring to time lines together, past and present. They are damaged and unrecognisable, just like my memory of that time and just like my memory of the now…
Weekend portfolio selected by W.M Hunt
