I’m re-photographing very old photographs and repurposing them. I recently used a portrait of my siblings and myself taken in…

“I’m re-photographing very old photographs and repurposing them. I recently used a portrait of my siblings and myself taken in Ottawa in 1971. It appeals to my sense of frugality, making use of things that already exist, bringing them back into circulation. Photography comes with this anxiety of overproduction; you can just keep shooting and shooting and you end up with so much material (Garry Winogrand, for instance). Pulling something out of the so-called archive is a way to mitigate that anxiety.”

–BOMB Magazine — Moyra Davey by Elisabeth Lebovici (viaphotographsonthebrain)