Seiichi Furuya : Memoires, 1995

For Furuya the countless photographs he had taken ever since their first date became precious repositories of memory, each one a key to emotions past and a way of holding on to Christine, his wife, who committed suicide in 1985.

The photographs in Mémoires 1995 as innocent as they might seem at first glance are all imbued with a sense of tragedy and a foreboding of death. And yet this is not just another love story with an unhappy ending; it is an unsettling meditation on the nature of photography, on how time’s inexorable passing changes the nature and use of photographs.