Atlanta Photography Exhibit has been bringing a great group show to Big House Gallery for the past few years, and Traci Browning is a participating artist in this year’s installment.
“12 black and white film images inspired by receiving the gift of my Dad’s Agfa camera three years after cancer took his life. Dad bought it in the ’50s as a young soldier overseas then shipped it home to his older sister, who shared the camera after finding it again in 2008. It arrived with a partially used roll of Kodachrome II color slide film inside. In July, my husband, our 2 dogs, the cat and I took a 5,007 mile roadtrip to hand-deliver the film to a lab specializing in discontinued film.
In 2005 I had invited Mom and Dad to take an extended trip along the California coastline with me but his cancer answered for us with a firm “no”. Mom and I took the trip this April with the Agfa in tow. These intimately-sized photographs are taken from both of these trips. “
© Traci Browning
