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Resurrecting Ancestors: A Study of Presence grew from a lifelong fascination with the quiet humanity preserved in ancient busts and sculptures. Throughout my career as a photographer, I traveled through museums around the world photographing faces carved in marble, terracotta, and stone—visages shaped centuries ago, yet still carrying traces of the people they once were. Again and again, I found myself imagining the lives behind these frozen expressions: individuals who loved, suffered, hoped, feared, and moved through life much as we do today.
Through contemporary technology, I approach these sculptures not as archaeological artifacts, but as human presences suspended between memory and life. By gently replacing the cold texture of stone with the realism of living skin—while preserving every original proportion, expression, and sculpted detail—I seek to dissolve the distance between past and present.
The faces themselves remain faithful to the distant artists who first shaped them, yet something profoundly human reemerges through the return of a warm gaze and emotional presence.
This work is not an attempt to modernize antiquity, but an invitation to encounter another human being across time. Resurrecting Ancestors is ultimately a meditation on memory, mortality, and the enduring continuity of the human face.
Paperback — 128 pages
Full-color printing
7 × 10 in. (17.8 × 25.4 cm), portrait format
Perfect bound
ISBN 978-0-9802432-3-9
Resurrecting Ancestors: A Study of Presence grew from a lifelong fascination with the quiet humanity preserved in ancient busts and sculptures. Throughout my career as a photographer, I traveled through museums around the world photographing faces carved in marble, terracotta, and stone—visages shaped centuries ago, yet still carrying traces of the people they once were. Again and again, I found myself imagining the lives behind these frozen expressions: individuals who loved, suffered, hoped, feared, and moved through life much as we do today.
Through contemporary technology, I approach these sculptures not as archaeological artifacts, but as human presences suspended between memory and life. By gently replacing the cold texture of stone with the realism of living skin—while preserving every original proportion, expression, and sculpted detail—I seek to dissolve the distance between past and present.
The faces themselves remain faithful to the distant artists who first shaped them, yet something profoundly human reemerges through the return of a warm gaze and emotional presence.
This work is not an attempt to modernize antiquity, but an invitation to encounter another human being across time. Resurrecting Ancestors is ultimately a meditation on memory, mortality, and the enduring continuity of the human face.
Paperback — 128 pages
Full-color printing
7 × 10 in. (17.8 × 25.4 cm), portrait format
Perfect bound
ISBN 978-0-9802432-3-9