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The photographs on this page were exhibited in Colección Engelman-Ost, Rondeau, Montevideo, from the 16th of November to the 3rd of December, 2004. 

There is something comfortingly familiar, nostalgic, about these photographs, conjuring up not simply memories of childhood, but sensations, tangible atmospheres.  They evoke reminders of sitting silently, as one had to when one was a child in my day, in strange or familiar sitting rooms, quietly observing the objects, the play of light, the shadows cast by potted palms and aspidistras, the sun shining through leaded windows and net curtains in silent, dusty rooms; of pottering round my great aunt’s house and of holidays at my grandmother’s.

The majority of the photographs appear to be in sepia or black and white, but are actually in colour, another reminder of older, more sombre, shadowy interiors.

The photographs themselves are also a record of time – the changing colour of sunlight, from early-morning orange to late-evening red, and the changing position of the sun itself.

Sean Partridge