**Launching Spring 2025

Using CGI, Canadian artist Benjamin Freedman presents a captivating image sequence which meticulously reconstructs his childhood memories of a family road trip to Maine in 1999. Blurring the line between reality and simulation, these surreal images toy with the ephemerality of memory and its inseparability from fantasy. Freedman’s recreated scenes of roadside diners, pools, and picnics create a visceral and sensory dreamscape, evoking the sounds and smells attached to his childhood recollections. 

These digitally constructed images explore how technology permits us to revisit and reimagine the past in ways that feel both familiar and uncanny. Distinctions between personal recollection and collective nostalgia are compromised, creating an idiosyncratic visual realm saturated with shared emotions and histories. Freedman’s use of digital tools to recapture nostalgic scenes underscores the fluidity of memory while also challenging traditional conventions of the photographic medium. 

With an essay by Cat Lachowskyj 

Positive Illusions was developed in the framework of the Master Photography at ECAL/University of the Art and Design Lausanne.

This publication was made possible with the support of the CONTACT Photography Festival.

Published by SPBH Editions/MACK Books

Embossed hardcover
21 x 28 cm, 144 pages

ISBN 978-1-915743-86-2