During the isolation resulting from the pandemic, family has taken on a new centrality. I am led to wonder why our connections to our ancestors and our descendants often feel stronger than connections to those around us. I often wish my children knew my grandparents. These are portraits of my children as the product of a history of lives lived and intertwined, each effecting and shaping the other. The images in this series are composites of my old family photographs, photographs I took of my children as they grew, and the New England landscapes where I grew up. With these images, generations reach each other across time. They are also, in many ways, self-portraits. I exist in the tension of the space between those who came before me and those who will come after. Their longing makes real those things I hold dear. The images are portraits of the layered process of becoming.

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About

Diana Cheren Nygren is a fine art photographer from Boston, Massachusetts. Her work explores the visual character of place defined through physical environment and weather. Our surroundings have implications for our experience of the world and reveal hints about the culture around it. Diana has studied art history with a focus on modern and contemporary art and the relationship of artistic production to its socio-political context. Her emphasis on careful composition in her photographic work, as well as her subject matter, reflects this training.

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