Untitled (family portrait with six generations) c. 1945

Editor: This is an intriguing image, a family portrait with six generations by Harry Annas. It's a photographic negative, which gives it this ghostly, ethereal quality. What strikes me is how it captures the weight of time, a lineage stretching back. What do you make of it? Curator: It whispers of ancestral echoes, doesn’t it? Look at the formality, the stiff poses, yet the tenderness in the woman holding the baby. It’s like peering into a dream, a collective memory. Does the reversal make you feel like you are seeing the other side of life? Editor: It does. It's like a secret unveiled, a hidden history coming to light. Curator: Exactly! And that’s the beauty of it, isn’t it? It makes us question what we think we know about family, about history, about ourselves.