Untitled (medium format images of mother posed with three children in living room) 1967

Editor: This is an untitled photograph by Martin Schweig, showing a mother and three children. The image is a negative, which gives it a rather ghostly quality. What symbols do you see present in the family portrait? Curator: The reversed tones immediately suggest a hidden world, a latent potential. The family portrait, typically a symbol of unity and permanence, is here presented as an inversion. The mother's nurturing presence and the children's hopeful faces become part of an ethereal narrative about memory and its fragile representation. Does the reversal impact how we connect with family photos? Editor: Definitely. It makes it feel more like a distant memory than a present reality. Thank you. Curator: Indeed, and perhaps points to the transience of such moments we try so hard to capture.