Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction:

This series is taken from an unending project, each image an insignificance in the overwhelming cacophony of a young family growing, settling, shifting, aging over more than twenty years. It explores the vastness of life’s experience rendered into fragmentary moments, each as banal as the next and in their sheer volume they become devoid of context: detached memories that no longer record or document at all. A narrative remains, however, since the themes at the heart of family life are familiar to us all.

The images, then, represent a Museum of Innocence: the photographs as objects become the custodians of unfolding seasons, of loss and love. The images are loyal storytellers; the fallibility of memory is ours alone.

© Heather McDonough - glass daisies
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glass daisies

© Heather McDonough - Get well flowers from a friend
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Get well flowers from a friend

© Heather McDonough - forgotten cucumber
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forgotten cucumber

© Heather McDonough - Emma's thumb
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Emma's thumb

© Heather McDonough - postcard from a friend
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postcard from a friend

© Heather McDonough - army of caterpillers
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army of caterpillers

© Heather McDonough - hot sunshine and new glasses
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hot sunshine and new glasses

© Heather McDonough - mother and babies
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mother and babies

© Heather McDonough - self portrait in playground toilets
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self portrait in playground toilets

© Heather McDonough - bright April sunshine
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bright April sunshine

© Heather McDonough - forgotten pepper
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forgotten pepper

© Heather McDonough - snow on high backed chair
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snow on high backed chair

© Heather McDonough - first candyfloss
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first candyfloss

© Heather McDonough - birdfeeders
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birdfeeders

© Heather McDonough - Lorenzo and frog spawn
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Lorenzo and frog spawn

© Heather McDonough - dead butterfly
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dead butterfly

© Heather McDonough - sleeping cat
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sleeping cat

© Heather McDonough - monument to charlie
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monument to charlie

© Heather McDonough - laundry
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laundry

© Heather McDonough - body of a skateboarder
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body of a skateboarder

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