Raphael Warshaw’s work is about a photo’s ability to provide physical pointers to personal memories containing what is old, new, and yet to come. He expands on this in the following statement:

For me place is the template that organizes this personal archive and photographs are the external physical pointers to the memories it contains, old, new and yet to come. The camera however sees differently than you and me. The flattening of the image, limited range of intensity and modification of color (still more the translation from color to monochrome) yields an abstraction that we respond to differently than to the scene itself. It’s a single point in both time and scale serving as a placeholder for memory but can alter that memory in ways both simple and profound. It is an entry point, a starting place from which to understand what has happened, is happening, and, perhaps, what will. I want my viewers to think about scale and time from a vantage point of my choosing without being aware of my meddling – if blatant they will see only the s