I looked at artists such as Elmgreen and Dragset who photograph homes and buildings where the inhabitiants play a minimal role. I found a parallel in their work with mine as alzheimers inhabitants the person and reduces the persons role in their own lives to nothing.
I also looked at the work of Martin Parr and his 'Objects' book, where he documents his collection of different objects from different decades, each with a sense of nostalgia and an ability to trigger memories.
I then decided to set up a tripod and dslr camera in my granny's old (now empty) house and photograph the empty rooms and objects. The empty house is like a metaphor for a person suffering with alzheimers - they are reduced to nothing but an empty shell and left to decay.
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