jane dorn family portraits https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/03/jane-dorn-photography/ " Emanating from Dorn’s photographs is a disquieting sense of impermanence as one beholds these derelict structures once erected as assurances of permanence. And yet a quiet beauty slips in through the cracked back door, gently reminding us of the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi — the awareness that life’s beauty comes from accepting imperfection and welcoming the natural cycles of growth and decay." Papova, M., n.d. The Presence of Absence: Jane Dorn's Haunting Photographs of Abandoned Buildings in the South. Brain Pickings. Available at: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/03/jane-dorn-photography/ [viewed 15/03/2021] "Looking is benign. Seeing has teeth and comes with consequences. You see it, you own it. Sometimes it owns you. I think of photographs as proof. Empirical evidence of both what is and what is not. Through the camera, I see not what is present, but w...