16/04/2026
When I was living in Manchester (UK), I often visited the weekend flea market on Telegraph Road in Trafford Park. It was a great place to make very affordable discoveries. People would come and sell everything they no longer needed for a bargain price. I once bought almost everything a photography darkroom needs for £50. In addition to developing tanks and tubs, there were even three enlargers were included.
There I also found a mouldy suitcase full of black and white family photographs from the 1940s and 50s.
A family from the northwest of England, consisting of a father, mother, two daughters and a grandmother. They spent Easter on the Isle of Man, sunbathed on a beach holiday in Blackpool and cycled in nature. The girls posed in white dresses. I looked at the pictures and wondered what their lives had been like. The girls would now be over 80 years old. The seller did not know the family.
Then I had the photos stored in a box for over ten years, until last summer I found more old family photos in Tartu (Estonia), as well as Soviet-era nature postcards.
I started working on photo collages. The project was boosted by a visit to Berlin, where I came across the work of Dadaist Hannah Höch and got a huge inspiration.
A couple of weeks ago, the "Roots" art postcard series was completed (8 cards in an envelope). The series was produced in a limited edition of 40 pieces. The cards are printed on recycled paper (Nautilus Classic 300g).
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