Phyl Payne

"An instantaneous mirror of memory, every photograph leaves an immobile trace of what has been, a fixed imprint of something that is no longer what it was before, a silent simulacrum of someone who has disappeared forever from the horizon of our vision. And, as a simple act of remembering, the photograph seems to testify only the disappearance and death of persons and of the feelings that bind us to them, of things and of the places to which they belong." Giovanni Chiaramonte