Photo: Lawrence & Gibson/Nicola Sandford
People love sharing photos and videos. There are unknowably huge numbers of images on-line. But what if you disappeared from your own photo-album? The rest of the scene still there, but your face is faded out, gone. Your friends and family too. What happens when the bonds created by photos fade away?
Wellington based author Thomas Sleigh ponders this in her new novel The Words For Her, where this exact thing happens: people start disappearing from images.
Thomasin Sleigh is a writer and editor with a background in art history. Her essays and art criticism have been published by galleries, newspapers, and magazines.
She has published two previous novels Ad Lib (2014), and Women in the Field, One and Two (2018), both of which look at the way images reflect and contest challenge wider hierarchies and power structures, particularly how women are depicted and understood through art and film.
