Saudade is the Portuguese word for a longing for something or someone you care for, a deep nostalgic or melancholic absence, and the repressed knowledge that you may never have that thing again.
These photographs were made together with my parents using FaceTime during the Covid-19 pandemic. They would hold up their phone at our home in Connecticut and I would direct and make the photograph from my phone in Aarhus, Denmark.
The work has become a deeply personal representation, but also a familiar one, of what it has felt like to be away from home and family during the pandemic. We talk for hours over FaceTime every weekend, this is how we have celebrated birthdays; how I see their faces when I cannot be with them. Our home and our family life, have become memories, fuzzy and sometimes barely there, but still potent.
